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Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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Henry H Stanley - A Hero's Story

A similar thing happened in england during world war one where like women would get together to like shame men in town who hadn't volunteered to fight yet. He enlists as a private soldier under an officer named henry h stanley and wound up fighting with a unit called the dixie grace at the battle of shiloh. Stanley later wrote of his feelings while standing in the carnage that he felt shocked to see quote "the human form we made so much of should now be mutilated hacked and outraged"

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