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The Flag of the British Empire.

What is the chief lesson we should carry away from these Lectures? Is it not that the Empire can only be defended as a whole, and with the full co-operation of all its citizens? Surely then it is the duty of each of us to uphold the flag and to learn something of the defences of the Empire, and of the way it should be guarded and its rights and honour maintained before the world.

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Transcriber’s Notes

  1. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling such as “battle-field/battlefield” and “hay-stack/hay stack” have been maintained.
  2. Multiple punctuation errors, such as missing periods, have silently been corrected.
  3. On handheld devices a large font size can cause some sidenotes to be displayed incorrectly in some paragraphs with many sidenotes. Reducing the font size should correct the problem.
  4. [Contents]: Changed page “22” to page “32”.
  5. [Page 2]: Changed “moutains” to “mountains”.
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  7. [Page 27]: Changed “Pekin” to “Peking”.
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  10. [Page 41]: Changed “Phillipines” to “Philippines”.
  11. [Page 70]: Changed “V irginia” to “Virginia”.
  12. [Page 90]: Changed “closelv” to “closely”.
  13. [Page 93]: Changed “snores” to “shores”.
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