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Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:00:18 -0500
Subject: Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

At 7:10 PM +0100 1/29/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
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>2) Why do you reckon a Dutch colony would be armed to the teeth ?

The last big Dutch colony was. The Boers nearly kicked the British 
off of South Africa. Made the Britsh army change all sorts of 
tactics, weapons skills and even uniforms.

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