To: isaiah55version11_0
The United States has merely supplanted Britain as the leading power
That was the result of the Spanish/American war. We have been number one since then.
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8 posted on
01/05/2006 11:28:40 AM PST by
mugs99
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To: mugs99
That was the result of the Spanish/American war. We have been number one since then. I would argue that Britain was still a superior overall power to the United States right up to WWI, which wore down the British Empire greatly, and then the WWII Axis killed off its remnants.
16 posted on
01/05/2006 12:03:05 PM PST by
jpl
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