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It must be said that the English had a pet peeve, someone else’s heel on which they feared more than the end of the world. This, of course, was the “pearl of the British crown” – India! It was so important that any movement by Russia in Central Asia caused a real hysteria in White Hall. But why do you think that any movement by the French in Indochina was perceived in England even a little calmer?
And the fact that France intended to settle down in Vietnam with all the comforts was already obvious without glasses. French missionaries were cultivating local kings to the fullest extent already at the end of the 18th century, and their activity even caused a massacre of Christians, after the descendants of Asterix and Obelix interrupted for the Napoleonic wars. And what do we have there between India and Vietnam? Bingo – Burma! In general, the reasons for the war were about the same that pulled the British into Afghanistan – the desire to preventively secure “their darling”. But, a reason! Really, even the British parliamentarians, who kept their shame in a very well-locked safe, were ashamed of this. It was like this…
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