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Jan Morris: Heaven’s Command - An Imperial Progress (unabridged)

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Jan Morris: Heaven’s Command - An Imperial Progress (unabridged)

Jan Morris: Heaven’s Command - An Imperial Progress (unabridged)

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The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Heaven’s Command, the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, moving effortlessly across the Empire, from the shores of England to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Truly gripping history.

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Jan Morris: Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Unabridged)
Work length20:07:06
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Jan Morris Introduction
Track length3:32
HEAVEN'S COMMAND: AN IMPERIAL PROGRESS
Track length7:25
Chapter 1: 2
Track length5:49
Chapter 1: 3
Track length5:09
Chapter 1: 4
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In Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow, entire communities…
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Chapter 1: 5
Track length4:38
Chapter 2: HIGH AND HOLY WORK
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The refinery had a churchy look, its limestone finely dressed…
Track length4:48
Chapter 2: 3
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Chapter 2: 4
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Chapter 2: 5
Track length5:47
Chapter 2: 6
Track length6:04
Freetown society was rich and strange. The founders…
Track length6:10
Chapter 2: 7
Track length1:15
Chapter 3: SWEET LIVES
Track length00:45
Chapter 3: 2
Track length3:11
Chapter 3: 3
Track length4:27
It was idealism that changed all this.
Track length3:38
Chapter 3: 4
Track length6:51
Chapter 3: 5
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Chapter 3: 6
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Retief was delighted, and the Boers rode back…
Track length3:25
Chapter 3: 7
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Chapter 3: 8
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Chapter 3: 9
Track length5:04
Chapter 3: 10
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Chapter 4: ROOTS INTO THEIR SOIL
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Chapter 4: 2
Track length3:34
Chapter 4: 3
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Chapter 4: 4
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Chapter 4: 5
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Each Thug hunting posse with its attendant apostates ready for…
Track length4:47
Chapter 4: 6
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Chapter 4: 7
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Chapter 5: LAWS OF WAR
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Chapter 5: 2
Track length6:29
Chapter 5: 3
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Chapter 5: 4
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Chapter 5: 5
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Chapter 5: 6
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Chapter 5: 7
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Here, the Kabul army ensconced itself, with all its camels and camp…
Track length4:20
Chapter 5: 8
Track length6:51
Chapter 5: 9
Track length3:35
Chapter 5: 10
Track length5:20
Chapter 5: 11
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Chapter 5: 12
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Chapter 5: 13
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Chapter 6: MERCHANT VENTURING
Track length2:58
Chapter 6: 2
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Chapter 6: 3
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Chapter 6: 4
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Chapter 6: 5
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Chapter 6: 6
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Yet it inspired amongst its employees a truly romantic sense…
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Chapter 6: 7
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Chapter 6: 8
Track length5:11
Chapter 6: 9
Track length2:38
Chapter 7: WHITE SETTLERS
Track length5:59
Chapter 7: 2
Track length2:34
Chapter 7: 3
Track length5:53
So, the little city had been elevated by a number of good Regency…
Track length4:59
Aborigines wandered drunk and dispossessed…
Track length5:13
Chapter 7: 4
Track length6:50
The first party disembarked upon the shore of what is now called…
Track length6:40
Chapter 7: 5
Track length4:05
Chapter 7: 6
Track length5:31
Chapter 8: AN ACT OF GOD
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Chapter 8: 2
Track length5:17
Chapter 8: 3
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The more cruelly the peasant was exploited, the more his family…
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Chapter 8: 4
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Chapter 8: 5
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Mallow too had its castle, in a park at the end of town…
Track length4:32
Chapter 8: 6
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Chapter 8: 7
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Even as the force paraded, news arrived that a body of police…
Track length3:39
Chapter 8: 8
Track length4:45
Chapter 8: 9
Track length3:30
Chapter 9: WHAT A FINE MAN
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Chapter 9: 2
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Chapter 9: 3
Track length4:55
Chapter 9: 4
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A commission of some 80 young company men imposed…
Track length1:52
Chapter 9: 5
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John Lawrence grew into something different.
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Chapter 9: 6
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Like so many of his contemporaries, Nicholson first saw…
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Chapter 9: 7
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PART 2 CHAPTER 10: THE GROWING CONVICTION
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Chapter 10: 2
Track length7:19
Chapter 10: 3
Track length3:41
Chapter 10: 4
Track length4:39
And most of all the railways: those supremely British…
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Chapter 10: 5
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Chapter 10: 6
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There were mills on the southern shore, and all around them…
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Chapter 10: 7
Track length5:35
Chapter 10: 8
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Chapter 10: 9
Track length3:46
Chapter 11: THE EPIC OF THE RACE
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Chapter 11: 2
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Chapter 11: 3
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Chapter 11: 4
Track length5:34
Chapter 11: 5
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Chapter 11: 6
Track length4:29
Chapter 11: 7
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This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire…
Track length4:48
Yet on June 23 the most determined rebel assault was beaten off.
Track length7:01
Chapter 11: 8
Track length5:24
Many of the Indian sepoys now deserted and by July 1858…
Track length5:41
At the end of October word filtered in that a second relieving force…
Track length4:35
Chapter 11: 9
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Chapter 11: 10
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Chapter 12: PAN AND MR. GLADSTONE
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Chapter 12: 2
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Chapter 12: 3
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The gang plank was thrown ashore and from the cutter…
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Chapter 12: 4
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Chapter 12: 5
Track length2:58
Chapter 12: 6
Track length2:35
Chapter 12: 7
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Chapter 12: 8
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Chapter 12: 9
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Chapter 12: 10
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Chapter 12: 11
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Chapter 13: THE IMPERIAL STYLE
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Chapter 13: 2
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Hill stations were never thought of by the Moghul rulers of India…
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Chapter 13: 3
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Chapter 13: 4
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Chapter 13: 5
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Chapter 13: 6
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Chapter 13: 7
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Chapter 14: ILLUSTRIOUS FOR THE NILE
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Chapter 14: 2
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In February 1858 they together became…
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Chapter 14: 3
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Chapter 14: 4
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Chapter 14: 5
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Chapter 14: 6
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Chapter 14: 7
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Chapter 14: 8
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Chapter 15: GOVERNOR EYRE
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Chapter 15: 2
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Chapter 15: 3
Track length4:41
Chapter 15: 4
Track length3:41
Chapter 15: 5
Track length6:28
Chapter 15: 6
Track length5:01
Chapter 15: 7
Track length5:09
Chapter 15: 8
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Chapter 15: 9
Track length2:52
Chapter 15: 10
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Chapter 16: AIN'T THE PENTATEUCH QUEER
Track length2:51
Explorers such as Speake or Grant saw themselves as God's scouts…
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Chapter 16: 2
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'But God has given us one little thing…'
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Chapter 16: 3
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In Cape Town Bishop Robert Gray, the Metropolitan…
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Farcical scenes ensued. Colenzo, returning from London…
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Chapter 16: 4
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This occasion figures in every Anglo Indian memoir of the period.
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Chapter 16: 5
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Chapter 16: 6
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Chapter 17: THE HUMILIATION OF THE METIS
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Chapter 17: 2
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Red River was the only sizeable settlement in Central Canada.
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Chapter 17: 3
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Chapter 17: 4
Track length4:44
Chapter 17: 5
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Chapter 17: 6
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Chapter 17: 7
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Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life…
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Chapter 17: 8
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Chapter 17: 9
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Chapter 18 IN THE PACIFIC
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Chapter 18: 2
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Chapter 18: 3
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All this made for a rag-bag cosmopolitan society.
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Cakobau was a Christian and knew white men very well.
Track length6:07
Chapter 18: 4
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Between the two communities lay the islands of The Strait.
Track length5:28
By the end of July, the British had landed a force of Royal Marines…
Track length5:22
Chapter 18: 5
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PART THREE THE IMPERIAL OBSESSION Chapter 19
Track length7:37
Chapter 19: 2
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Gladstone's most celebrated tour de force…
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Mr. Gladstone preferred chopping trees down…
Track length4:39
Chapter 19: 3
Track length4:54
Chapter 19: 4
Track length4:31
Chapter 19: 5
Track length1:03
Chapter 20: ASHANTI
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Chapter 20: 2
Track length2:41
Chapter 20: 3
Track length3:52
Chapter 20: 4
Track length5:28
Chapter 20: 5
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Chapter 20: 6
Track length6:53
Chapter 20: 7
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Chapter 21: BY THE SWORD
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Chapter 21: 2
Track length4:32
It was still essentially an army of Empire, different in kind…
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Chapter 21: 3
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Socially, The Royal Navy had gone up in the world…
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Chapter 21: 4
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Chapter 21: 5
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In 1875 a promising prospect was reported to him.
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Chapter 21: 6
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Chapter 22: SOUTH OF THE ZAMBEZI
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Chapter 22: 2
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Chapter 22: 3
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Such a mission suited his temperament.
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Chapter 22: 4
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Frere had early reached the decision…
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Chapter 22: 5
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Chapter 22: 6
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Chapter 22: 7
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Chapter 22: 8
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Chapter 22: 9
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His little assault force, about 400 strong, climbed the precipitous…
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Chapter 22: 10
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Chapter 23: THE END OF THE TASMANIANS
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Chapter 23: 2
Track length4:59
Chapter 23: 3
Track length5:29
Chapter 23: 4
Track length5:07
Chapter 23: 5
Track length4:33
Chapter 23: 6
Track length4:23
Chapter 23: 7
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Presently, Robinson himself, having rounded up every last aboriginal…
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Chapter 23: 8
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Chapter 23: 9
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Chapter 24: THE REBEL PRINCE
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Chapter 24: 2
Track length3:53
Chapter 24: 3
Track length3:34
Chapter 24: 4
Track length6:24
Chapter 24: 5
Track length4:24
Through the land league, Parnell ruthlessly exploited…
Track length2:35
Chapter 24: 6
Track length4:19
Chapter 24: 7
Track length3:31
Chapter 24: 8
Track length3:55
But in the same month as the presentation of the Home Rule Bill…
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Chapter 24: 9
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Some say that O'Shea sued for divorce…
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Chapter 24: 10
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Chapter 25 THE MARTYR OF EMPIRE
Track length2:48
Chapter 25: 2
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Chapter 25: 3
Track length5:42
Chapter 25: 4
Track length4:34
Garnett Wolseley called Gordon 'God's Friend'…
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Chapter 25: 5
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Next, Gordon began to hint…
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He wrote his journal in his stifling upstairs bedroom.
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Chapter 25: 6
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Chapter 25: 7
Track length4:34
Chapter 25: 8
Track length4:30
Chapter 25: 9
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Chapter 26: SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
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Kruger looked upon Johannesburg as a more fallible Moses might…
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Chapter 26: 2
Track length4:49
Chapter 26: 3
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Chapter 26: 4
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Lugard has not been invited…
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Chapter 26: 5
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Yet, like an infuriating particle of grit…
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Chapter 26: 6
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Chapter 26: 7
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Chapter 27: AN IMPERIAL FULFILMENT
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Chapter 27: 2
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Chapter 27: 3
Track length2:54
Chapter 27: 4
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Chapter 27: 5
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