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The Next Seaborn Invasion by a Foreign Power
We run all the way through to the glorious revolution of 16 88, as it was explained to me at school. The next sea born invasion er happens exactly a hundred years later, in 16 88. And that william lands end an on the fifth of november, which by this stage has assumed, again, providential significance because of the discovery of the gunpowder plot. There are ambassadorial parties from paris, from venice, from rome, from spain,. All the way through this there are foreign observers, foreign eyes, foreign journalists, almost writing about the british.
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