Falkland Islands
After the Falklands War, due to the distances involved when patrolling, some British Army infantry units were taught to ride Welsh mountain ponies.
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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
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