The riverside terrace was designed to enhance the views of Agra for the imperial elite who would travel in and around the city by river.
He'd spent his youth learning to play the frivolous games of the Great Houses, living the pampered lifestyle of the imperial elite.
Where, then, is the new imperial elite to come from?
Athens was the primary center of education for the imperial elite, rivaled only by Alexandria, and one of the most important cities in the Empire.
The uprising was unequivocally and specifically directed against the central amhara regime of Haile Selassie I, rather than the Tigrian imperial elite.
Their nobility was the axis of the imperial elite.
"What I find so extraordinary is that we do not want to face up to the fact that we are training tomorrow's imperial elite," he says.
The central authorities and the imperial elite made most of the key decisions, but local elites set up a demand for rail linkages.
These settlements may have bought short term political peace for imperial elites, but their long term effect was negative, weakening the traditional strengths of the heavy infantry in discipline, training and deployment.
We stand in the heart of the British capital, the one area on Earth that Britain's imperial elite are unwilling to devastate in the pursuit of their evil hegemony.