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Revolutions
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Charlie, did you know that Haiti's slave revolution is the only one that has ever won back its freedom? They beat the French back so many times and so badly those Frenchmen ended up just selling Louisiana to America along with all the gateways to the west. All so the French didn't have to go back and fight that little island again. Without Haiti, America wouldn't be America, y'know, Manifest Destiny and all that. Haiti changed the trajectory of the world.
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― Sky Full of Elephants
― Sky Full of Elephants
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Fortune favors the bold. One doesn't win glory by hiding behind the lines.
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― The Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
― The Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
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