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1718: French colonists arrive in Louisiana and acquire the site for New Orleans in a trade involving beads and comely indian maidens lifting their shirts.
1814: British capture Washington, DC; not such a big deal, really, it being midsummer in former swampland, no one in their right mind was still in town to defend it.
1944: Paris liberated from Nazis; grateful Parisians immediately begin sneering at and overcharging American soldiers.
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