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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the mountain side, and took up the same day a strong position about
Tanungamanono and Mangiangi, some two miles behind Apia, which they
threatened with the one hand, while with the other they continued
to draw their supplies from the devoted plantations of the German
firm. Laulii, when it was shelled, was empty. The British flags
were, of course, fired upon; and I hear that one of them was struck
down, but I think every one must be privately of the mind that it
was fired upon and fell, in a place where it had little business to
be shown.
Such was the military epilogue to the ill-judged adventure of
Fangalii; it was difficult for failure to be more complete. But
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