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The Button Man of Waterloo
By Benjamin Robert Haydon
Amid all the confusion of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington spotted a man in civilian clothes riding busily around on a stocky horse.
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The Lessons of Empire
By W. Somerset Maugham
The British Empire’s hostile breakup with India should have taught everyone two things: money cannot buy love, and power does not command respect.
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The Verdict of History
By John Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Two of the Victorian Age’s most distinguished historians locked horns over the question of whether historians should be nice.
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The Considerate Queen
By Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III
When the young Aga Khan visited London in 1898 he was presented to Queen Victoria, and found her cultural sensitivity deeply touching.
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A Little Savoir Faire
By George W. E. Russell
At the Berlin Congress of Powers in 1878, the draft of the Prime Minister’s keynote speech had his anxious aides scuttling about like ants.
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A Smuggler and a Gentleman
By Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Harry Paulet was going about his unlawful business when he spotted a French fleet slip quietly out of Brest and into the Atlantic.
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