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I'm Hugh Hewitt, joined by Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College.

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This is week two of our walk-through, Winston Churchill's great memoir, written in 1930,

called My Early Life. He was 54 at the time.

One was behind him.

A lot was behind him. A lot was ahead of him,

of course. But I want to go back. Dr. Arun, I missed last week setting up the Battle of Majuba Hill.

And the Battle of Majuba Hill is referred to again and again because Lord Salisbury, who we did

talk about last week, who's mentioned again and again in my early life,

is depicted by Winston Churchill as keeping his table clear to settle accounts with the Caliphah

and with Majuba's victors in the First Boer War.

So let's talk a little bit about the first Boer War and a little bit

about Caliphah, although we covered the river war already. Let's go back and set the table

for the Steelers fans who forgot are the people who listen in the morning and have now just come to us

in the afternoon. So Churchill fought in Cuba, and then he fought,

he went off to India and he went up and fought on the Afghan border, and then he went back to

England and then he went down to the sedan, wormed his way in there, and that's where they fought

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