This is an account of the first months of Australia's part in the Great War, our conquest of German New Guinea and the destruction of the Emden, cornered by the Sydney in the Cocos Islands in November 1914.
One of the major tenets of human evolution, the story of our world conquest, is now urgently in need of revision.
Just as the British and French have failed to recognize and atone for the consequences of their shameful behaviors in South Asia and the Arab World, Americans have never come to grips with the devastating impact and lasting trauma visited upon this country's indigenous peoples, slaves, and the victims of our imperial conquest of lands to our south.
Fox approved of the peace negotiations that resulted in the treaty signed at Amiens (1802) but spoke of the "shameful surrender of all our conquests" to Napoleon.
In the end, our conquest of whales has mirrored that of the very earth we once thought whales symbolized, just as our current regard for both entities now stems, in large part, from an increasing awareness of their finitude and frailty.
But Emerson, however he may be employed now, loathed the American imperialism of the Mexican war, and would be sublimely ironic at our conquest of Baghdad.
We see, then, that our "conquest of space" is a conquest only in some picturesquely Pickwickian sense.
It then took a further 15,000 to 25,000 years to complete our conquest of Europe.
God brought us back to this land, and now we need to fight to expel the non-Jews who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land".
A soldier, identified by the pseudonym Ram, is quoted as saying that in Gaza, "the rabbinate brought in a lot of booklets and articles and their message was very clear: We are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we need to fight to expel the non-Jews who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land.
