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A saying spoken by the American delegates when the privateers' demands were issued. The delegates found the terms unacceptable answered "Not a sixpence," but in the inflated rhetoric of the day the response became the infinitely more memorable: "Millions for defense, sir, but not one cent for tribute!"
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What does waging a war of defense mean?
I would assume it would be being in war where the enemy is constantly attacking, and you just defend your position, rather than attacking them.
What does idf mean in internet slang?
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Who created the largest empire in the world?
= Great Britain and the British Empire! = # British Empire - 36.67 million km2 (1922)[23] # Mongol Empire - 36.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)[14][3] # Russian Empire - 22.8 million km2 (1895)[14][3] # Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 22.3 million km2 (1945)[14] # Spanish Empire - 19.425 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)[25] # Russian Federation - 17.1 million km2 (1991)[14] # Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)[14][3] # Second French Colonial Empire - 12.3 million km2 (1938)[25] # Umayyad Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (720 or 750)[14][3] # Yuan Empire, China - 11.0 million km2 (1310)[14
What does 'to provide for the common defense' mean?
In the U.S. Constitution, it signifies one of the reasons that the individual states are banding together in a union: to provide an effective, unified military force to protect all of the states together (as opposed to each state fielding its own military to protect itself independently).
What is Mutual Defense Alliance?
They also mean that people that can not be stop because they are so powerful like the president or aliens from a other planet.It also mean that people are cruel and the work for slavery and they do it till the dieIs when two thing come together and they become a country and they fight for whats there the fight for money ,freedom , and peace.and the git a rested for doing that .some people do it for fun and to play with the president .
