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MrBuddyCasinolast Thursday at 6:11 PM1 replyview on HN

E.P. Thompson, „The Making of the English Working Class“.

It is admittedly a specific cherry picked point in time at which this was true, but useful to illustrate the issue.


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tim333last Friday at 1:57 PM

I had a look out of curiosity. The book has:

>“In the summer of 1812 there were no fewer than 12,000 troops in the disturbed counties, a greater force than Wellington had under his command in the Peninsula.”

But for that year Wikipedia has

>Wellington's 48,500-man army... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca

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