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    Default The United Kingdom a very brief History

    As seen and published about 15 years ago...
    AD 43 Roman Invasion.
    c. 410 Last Roman Troops leave Britain.
    1066 Norman Invasion
    1215 Magna Carta. Limits power of the King.
    1337-1453 Hundred Years War in France.
    1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.
    1603 Union of English and Scottish Kingdoms under James 1 and V1.
    1642-51 English Civil Wars. King deposed.
    1660 Crown restored.
    1688 Parliament deposes James 11 in " Glorious Revolution ".
    1707 Act of Union joins England and Scotland as United Kingdom of Great Britain.
    1801 Ireland made part of the United Kingdom.
    1815 Battle of Waterloo ends Napoleonic wars.
    1914-1918 First World War
    1939-1945 Second World War.
    1945-51 " Welfare State" created.
    1960 Founder member of European Free Trade Association.
    1973 Joins European Community.
    1982 Falklands War.
    1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly established.

    The rest is history and should be old enough to know the saga and its continuation.

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    John S. Cappy's going disagree, between c410 to 1066 the Vikings were playing havoc all along the eastern seaboard and even settled in Yorkshire!

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    and ragnor shouted we will kill all the women and rape all the men and wotan said dont you mean we will kill all the men and rape all the women ragnor .....when a squeaky little voice from the crowd tweeted ......ooooh shut up ragnor knows what he means......

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    The Shetlands, and Orkney islands were ruled from 850 ad by the Vikings, along with the counties of Caithness and Sutherland on the Scottish mainland. That lasted until 1468 when the islands and the mainland were giver back as a dowery , and been in Scots ever since. Just a wee bit of history the low landers tend to forget, I was born in Thurso Caithness by the way

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    The Disunited Kingdom of the near future.
    Independent Scotland.
    United Ireland .

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    About 4 miles up river from here is Benfleet, local history records the Vikings had a well established settlement there with a fortress and 200 vessels,
    the Saxons kicked them out when King Alfred sent his army to Benfleet in 894, it was a decisive battle known as the Battle of Benfleet, this whole section
    of the Thames is steeped in history, maybe not everybody's thing, but can be very interesting , cheers .

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    Quote Originally Posted by cappy View Post
    and ragnor shouted we will kill all the women and rape all the men and wotan said dont you mean we will kill all the men and rape all the women ragnor .....when a squeaky little voice from the crowd tweeted ......ooooh shut up ragnor knows what he means......
    That was a blast from the past cappy, first heard it in the sixties, same joke but another version. Dick Turpin holds up a stagecoach, he
    orders everybody out, after running his eyes over the passengers, he declares, "I'm going to rob the ladies and rape the men", one of the passengers,
    A portly old Gent, says "Surely sir you mean you'll rape the women and rob the men,
    suddenly a little fellow pipe up in a camp Kenneth Williams voice, "Oh shut up, Mr Turpin Knows what he means, it was a good un in those days, cheers.

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    #2 Its only a brief outline Bill taken from a Readers Digest of that era. Probably other sources will be different. Hard to imagine Cappy as Eric the Red, he doesnt have Red hair to start with. Will be lucky if hes got any hair by now in any case. He gave up the raping and pillaging when he starting drawing his O.A.P. JS
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    From the same source....The Worlds smallest Nation. The Vatican City, Stato Citta Del Vaticano. The Absolute Ruler is the Pope, who is elected for life. The population is fewer than 1000. Latin is an official language, it has a birthrate of zero. there is no Income Tax. It is less than a quarter of the size of Londons Hyde Park. Has its own flag, bank, broadcasting station and postage stamps and its own diplomatic corps. the country is protected by the Swiss Guard, A corps of papal bodyguards. Founded during the Renaissance . Is the last surviving remnant of the Papal States, which were abolished in 1870. Vaticans Independance was guaranteed by Mussolini in 1929. in the Sistine Chapel the frescoes and other artifices and also the Swiss Guards uniforms are said to have been designed by Michelangelo.
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    The hundred year war that lasted 116 years.
    But if you look at the way France now behave to UK I would say it is still going on.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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