To: B Knotts
Hey Pat, they havent been an empire for 300+ years.
To: irons_player
The British gave up India in or about 1947, hardly 300 years ago. Both the Brits and the French still have one or two colonial islands left, I believe.
78 posted on
11/07/2005 3:22:45 PM PST by
expatpat
To: irons_player
"Hey Pat, they havent been an empire for 300+ years."
Wow, it only seems only about forty years ago that they left Algeria. Its been 300 hundred years, man I'm feeling old!
178 posted on
11/07/2005 5:11:02 PM PST by
fallujah-nuker
(America needs more SAC and less empty sacs.)
To: irons_player
Hey Pat, they havent been an empire for 300+ years.
Hey i-p, they just let go of Algeria about 40 years ago. Read some history.
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