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It is early January 1879 as you assume the role of British Lieutenant General Frederick Augustus Thesiger, 2d Baron Chelmsford (you are referred to and addressed by your title, Lord Chelmsford). You are currently in Britain’s colony of Natal in southeastern Africa, where you command an army of nearly 16,000 British regulars, colonial troops and …
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