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Rundle Burges Watson (1809-1860), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
In 1840, the British Government declared war on the Chinese Empire over their harsh treatment of drug smugglers from Bengal.
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A herd of goats is threatened by a pride of lions, and it falls to one brave billy to face the danger alone.
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An ageing Heron finds himself a little too stiff to fish for himself, so he thinks of a way to get the fish to do it for him.
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The lord of Benares is so partial to venison that fields lie fallow and marketplaces stand empty while his people catch deer for him.
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A warlike king sets out to bag another small kingdom for his realms, but a monkey gets him thinking.
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In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.