lternatives:

We are richer than anybody.
We are Tremendous Swells.
The Policeman outside Mansion House is the finest in the world.
Our fleet can smash all the rest.
Mind your eye!
By Jingo, if we do--!!!
Go to Jericho!

The difficulties of printing a map of the world in colours within the
space of a postage stamp led to "minor" geographical inexactitudes,
such as the annexation by the red colour, of the United States, the
invasion of France by England, and the removal of the Cape of Good
Hope out into the sea. But unlike the Dominican Republic's map stamp
of 1900 it did not lead to complications with other countries.

Canada's Quebec Tercentenary issue includes some stamps of martial
interest (_Figs._ 309-311), the 5 cents shows the French Governor
Champlain's house in Quebec, round which a wide ditch was dug and
breastworks were thrown up and cannon mounted to protect the colonists
from the savages. Generals Wolfe and Montcalm are portrayed on the 7
cents, the 10 cents shows the old city and fort of Quebec in 1700, and
the other denominations show incidents in the exploration of Canada
and portraits of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and of King George
and Queen Mary.

[Illustration: 312 313]

MEXICO. Mexican stamps from 1856 to the rise of Porforio Diaz
demonstrate some of the political changes through which the country
has passed, from Republic to Empire, and back to Republic. Revolution
has brought about provisional stamps of a rare order, such as the
Guadalajara, Chiapas, and Campeche stamps of 1867-1868, and the more
recent issues of the "Constitutionalist" party for Sonora (_Figs._
312-314) and Tamaulipas (_Fig._ 315).

[Illustration: 314 315]

_Figs._ 316, 317 represent ordinary Mexican stamps commandeered and
overprinted by the rebels.

[Illustration: 316 317]

Martial portraits figure on the stamps of many of the South and
Central States; to mention them all would require a goodly sized
dictionary of American biography. In addition, specialists find much
interest in tracing, by extra-territorial postmarks, the movements
of troops in the various wars between Brazil and Paraguay, Chili
and Peru, etc.; and many of the countries give us scenes recording
outstanding incidents in their histories, especially on their issues
commemorative of the centenary of their freedom from the Spanish yoke.
Chili, for example, depicts the battles of Chacabuco, Roble, Maipo,
the sea fight of April 27