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The British Empire controlled a vast 4,500-mile contiguous swath of territory from Egypt to South Africa. Did the British build roads or railroads to allow people and freight to travel by land from one end to the other? Was that something they considered desirable?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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