The UK Bible Students Website History Corner
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Perhaps we should have to go back for a parallel to Pitt’s leadership and inspiration in the Seven Years War; or, in more recent times, we may think of Lincoln’s heroic Presidency, without whom the [American] Civil War might never have been won.
In its resistance to Nazi Germany for what seemed at the time of
going through it an age, alone it rendered a grander service to Europe than
even in its resistance to the Spain of Philip II, the France of Louis XIV and
Napoleon, the Germany of Bismarck and William II; for though Britain’s
existence was at stake, more was involved for others – the survival of European
civilisation.’
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