Britain begged the Bear for twenty thousand soldiers to crush the young republic. Catherine the Great said no — and armed the seas against the Crown instead. Not friendship, not enmity: usefulness without intimacy.
Britain begged the Bear for twenty thousand soldiers to crush the young republic. Catherine the Great said no — and armed the seas against the Crown instead. Not friendship, not enmity: usefulness without intimacy.
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