I do wonder if the American revolutionaries would have felt any regret if their stupid little tax dispute had led to the conquest of the mother country by an absolute monarchy. "Woops"!
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The British have been threatened by three famous invasions in 1588, 1805, and 1940 but the year of maximum danger may have been 1779, when a greatly superior Franco-Spanish invasion fleet was foiled only by an outbreak of smallpox and a divine wind.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_of_1779 ….
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