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People tend to underestimate how important fortresses were to the success of European expansion.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“And that's one thing that people tend to underestimate with the success of European expansion.”
“At the end of the day, they had the fortresses, right?”Play from 51:22Report a misattribution
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