19 aToward the enemy,
20 bNo matter what.
CHAPTER 231 Thanks to the cgreat tradition of the Brit military, Brit foreign policy tended to be very successful.
2 In spite of all their internal revolutions and their dforeign queens and their string of edim-witted Georges,
3 The Brits managed to defeat the French several times,
4 fIn the Hundred Years War,
5 gAnd the Thirty Years War,
6 hAnd the Seven Years war,
7 iAnd the Napoleonic Wars too.
8 These Brit victories took place on a couple of different continents,
9 Including America, jwhere the Frogs couldn't win even with the help of a bunch of Indians,
10 And Europe, kwhere the Frogs couldn't break their losing streak even with the help of a brilliant Corsican general,
11 Although they would have if the Brits hadn't had their great lclass system to produce the right Brit heroes in the nick of time,
12 Such as mNelson,
13 nWho had one arm and one eye and therefore knew how to think like a Frenchman,
14 And oWellington, pwho didn't know how to think at all,
15 qThus explaining why he made the Brit army fight the Battle of Waterloo on the playing fields of rEton,
16 Which confused sNapoleon no end,
17 And therefore contributed enormously to eventual Brit victory.
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CHAPTER 241 There was one little episode, however, from which the Brits did not emerge completely victorious,
2 Which is not to say that they lost,
3 tBecause the Brits never lose a war,
4 uEven when it sort of looks that way.
5 What happened was that the Brits had worked hard to colonize part of America,
6 Which they did the hard way, of course,
7 vStarting later than everyone else,
8 wAnd then doing it by sending boatfuls of unpleasant religious outcasts into Indian-infested tracts of wilderness, without funds or provisions, to build rich and valuable new world colonies.
9 xThis brilliant strategy ultimately provided the Brits with the richest, most valuable colonies in the world,
10 yWhich they quite properly tried to exploit through taxation,
11 zResulting in a lot of grousing by the colonists,
12 aaWho wanted to be independent,
13 bbMeaning tax-free,
14 ccAnd then declared that they were independent,
15 ddWith a nation of their own,
16 And topped it off by saying a lot of impolite things about the king.
17 eeObviously, the Brits had to suppress the rebellion,
18 ffBut since the Americans were fighting against great odds, with fewer troops and weapons and provisions than the Brits had,
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