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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They weren’t constantly rotating those positions though? I’m not saying the colonies became fully integrated like how France’s modern colonial empire.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

In those places, yea the British contingent were fully segregated from the locals, living in what would now be termed Green Zones. They didn’t mix with the locals.