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1 posted on 04/25/2015 9:39:10 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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One consequence of the widespread ignorance of our own, let alone each others’ histories by both Britons and Americans is that many Americans assume that the Revolutionary War (known in Britain as the War of American Independence) was as significant an event in British history as it self-evidently was in American history. Whereas for the British that war, important as it was, was just one in a century of wars, soon to be overwhelmed in scale and significance - militarily, economically and politically, by the Napoleonic Wars.


60 posted on 04/25/2015 12:16:12 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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The Brits have been brain-washed by their liberal leaders and Islam.


62 posted on 04/25/2015 12:25:16 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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16th-century navigator Francis Drake,

Drake was Elizabeth’s “sea-dog” and beat the Spanish Armada in 1588...

He sailed into San Francisco Bay and charted it on his around the world voyage...


75 posted on 04/25/2015 1:09:42 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Wot?! Of course oi’ve got wa’er in me loo! That’s ‘ow it works!!


76 posted on 04/25/2015 1:21:10 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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A country literally in its death throes.


83 posted on 04/25/2015 1:44:38 PM PDT by Viennacon
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“Most Britons have no idea about Waterloo”

They think it’s indoor plumbing.


88 posted on 04/25/2015 5:28:53 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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“As you know...the Duke of Ellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton”—Babe Ruth


91 posted on 04/25/2015 7:37:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Well, at least 53% of Brits knew what the the battle of Waterloo and that Lord Wellington was the victor against Napoleon.

Most Americans up to age 30 don’t know that Ronald Reagan
Reagan was president for 8 years, or that he was a Republican.


95 posted on 04/25/2015 8:18:55 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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