Nineteen thousand resident white loyalists also supplemented British troops, as did at least eight thousand Irishmen and more than thirty thousand soldiers loaned to the king by princes in the German states.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
This time, the drama centers on the schedules of both princes.
Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
But the grab bag of parts—cheese barons, Nazis—never comes together, and the old obsessions never acquire new force.
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