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Article: Antiques.(English antiques)

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June 1, 2003
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... English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, 1779-1781

The United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed as a nation in 1707 with the passage in Parliament of the Act of Union linking Scotland with England and Wales. From then until the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 Great Britain was involved in a series of wars with France. Nonetheless, during that long century a sense of national identity was forged, aided by the fact that Britain was an island with the sea as its defense. Its people were not only unified under a Protestant ruler but also ready to take on the mission of spreading their ...

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