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Chapter 16
The sEnglish, being tEnglish, set about becoming a power in the new world in the most eccentric and backward way they could think of.
2Instead of sending ships out to conquer territory in the new world,
3uThey sent exiles and outcasts,
4Unarmed,
5vAnd generally peace-loving,
6To establish pathetic little colonies that usually died of cold and starvation during the first winter.
7While this brilliant colonial strategy was getting under way, they also did what they could to irritate the aSpanish,
8By sinking all the Spanish ships they could find in the Atlantic,
9bAnd occasionally unloading them first,
10Though not always.
11Then they sent cSir Walter Raleigh and some other Brit lords to the new world to bring back tobacco leaves,
12Which they did,d
13Thus showing the Spanish who really deserved to be the Chosen Nation,
14eSomehow.
15fAnd eventually, the exceptionally clever British colonial strategy resulted in British control of most of the eastern seaboard of North America,
16And the most highly advanced and lucrative of all the European holdings in the new world,
17gSomehow.
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