Re: Just As True Today As It Was In 1779

"John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> conwaycaine wrote:
>> "William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "conwaycaine" <conwaycaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Comparing Oliver Cromwell to George Wa****ngton are we?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well they started out pretty similar didn't they.
>>> Farmers who became involved in politics and went on to become
>>> successful soldiers revolting against royal authority.
>>> It is possible (nay probable) that Wa****ngton was well aware of
>>> Cromwell's failings and so deliberately avoided following  the path
>>> to tyranny. I think Cromwell was probably a better soldier though.  He
>>> essentially invented the modern regular army as well as working out
>>> how to make cavalry do more than one charge per battle...
>>> Wa****ngton was certainly a better politician...
>>
>> Ummm, no.
>> Cromwell was a bloodthirsty terrorist who happened to have a rather
>> large army (which he used quite effectively).
>> Wa****ngton was a patriot who wanted the English out of America.
>
> Umm - they were "British" rather than "English", and that applied to
just 
> about about all white settlers, and Wa****ngton wasn't trying to expel 
> those, was he?  Of the colonies, nearly all had previously been
"English" 
> (wasn't only Nova Scotia Scottish?), but Georgia was founded after the
Act 
> of Union, so could only be "British".

Well, we thought we were English but you people soon disabused us of that 
notion.
Hence the Revolution.

I think back then PC wasn't high on anyone's priority list and few
*nglismen 
really gave a damn about Welsh, Scottish, or Irish sensibilities.
So "England" and "English" was the common term for all you Pommies.
There were (and are) so many more of the *nglish, don't you see?

("Act of Union", what a farce)