March
• How a war started when a Brit insisted on sitting on a stool
• Who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls
• Why a British soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe!
From savage slavers and rotten rebels to horrible heroes and nasty natives, grab the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire – with all the gore and more!
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