"Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa."

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Original Language: English

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'Lord Clive', The Edinburgh Review (January 1840), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. III (1843), p. 109