Brit Quote: Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there - George Orwell More Quotes
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Bodleian Library Opens - 1602, Trent Affair Threatens Anglo-US War - 1861, Race Relations Act comes into force - 1965, Enniskillen Remembrance Day Bomb - 1987 More dates from British history
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