You talk about the insurgency in Ireland over such a very long period of time. You can think of a number of examples where the British, despite being the greatest army in history at the time, couldn't use their military dominance to achieve an end. Perhaps they didn't have the heart for it. The slow dispersal of the British Empire is an interesting evolution of their might. And yet, their ability to impose their will on people that aren't in England. They're pretty good at England, but outside of England, I had a great run, but it didn't last. In Ireland in 1916, the Easter Rising, the Irish rebels were a bunch of farmers and intellectuals and poets.