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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

1788.308 - 1808.596 Jean-Paul Faguet

They had gunpowder and they had steel. And the indigenous warriors that they were fighting had slings where they threw rocks and they had clubs and bows and arrows. And that's all they had. They didn't have swords because they didn't have steel. So they had clubs, right? But even so, 10,000 people with these arms could have beaten 170.

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