When the French cut off the heads of their aristocrats, and the Russian peasants shot theirs, the British upper classes were afraid revolt would leapfrog continents.
When the French cut off the heads of their aristocrats, and the Russian peasants shot theirs, the British upper classes were afraid revolt would leapfrog continents.
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Rosemary Goring
That it never did has troubled historians, who've searched fruitlessly for an explanation for the British lack of revolutionary spirit (though I expect Charles I must have felt his subjects were a bit too antsy for comfort).
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