seems to indicate that both the UK and the US (along with Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary) were involved in some way or another in oppressing the Chinese.
You may just get away with the Mexican bit, but the Irish had soldiers there too as part of the British Army as then was. :)
Using Irish troops as saying Irish supported English colonialism is kinda like using black Confederate troops to say that blacks were in support of slavery :P
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:47 pm (UTC)But:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance
seems to indicate that both the UK and the US (along with Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary) were involved in some way or another in oppressing the Chinese.
You may just get away with the Mexican bit, but the Irish had soldiers there too as part of the British Army as then was. :)
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Date: 2011-04-21 05:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
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