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Two months later, it met an inglorious end when, during the Battle of Fort Lee, the American ship that was transporting it was sunk by the British.

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A proud Bruin having met an inglorious ending, those fixes will now be in the hands of someone else.

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Another memorable event was the final, inglorious end of America’s two-decade-long intervention in Vietnam, a bitter vindication for those who had always said it was a pointless and bloody mistake.

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As one former Trump associate explains, Trump would rather go out in a blaze of inglorious violence.

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He returned just 50 days after his inglorious departure, first to Singapore and then Thailand.

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