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Eulalia said:
Neither Magna Carta nor Agincourt are part of Scottish history ;)
[well - Alan, Lord of Galloway, who had huge estates in England too, was a close confidant of King John at the time of MC,
and the defeat at Agincourt prompted the French to call in the Scots, who defeated the English at Bauge in 1421 -
I wonder if we'll be having commemorations of that battle? :p]
Still, any excuse for a party!
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I believe the first Jacobite rebellion began in 1715....battle of Preston?

Eul may not be quite so keen on a party...:rolleyes:
 
Good one Wragg, yes the '15 - a bit of a fiasco,
the Jacobites effectively won the battle of Sherrifmuir,
but didn't know what to do next :rolleyes:
Strictly speaking, it was the second Jacobite rebellion,
the first being 'Bonnie Dundee's' in 1689,
with the Battle of Killicrankie which the Jacobites won but Dundee was killed.

There was some Jacobite sympathy in Galloway,
but the Covenanters - hard-line, and I mean very hard-line, Calvinists -
were much stronger round my way, and as much of a worry to the London - Edinburgh
establishment as the (mainly but not exclusively Catholic) Jacobites
 
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Eulalia said:
one for the Forums - 415 the 'martyrdom' of Hypatia,
the neo-Platonist woman philosopher in Alexandria,
lynched by a mob of fanatical Christians:

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A very sad event, at a very turbulent time for christianity.
It's an event which seems to have captured the modern imagination, I've read accounts of it in at least 2 novels in recent years.

I hate fanaticism.
In fact I'm violently and fanatically opposed to it . . . . :confused:
 
admihoek said:
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 also tomorrow 200 years ago
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But before anyone quotes the Duke of Wellington as having said, "It was a damn close-run thing", Pp understands that he actually said, "It has been a damned nice thing – the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life."

Only the Iron Duke would have described the Battle of Waterloo as "nice".
 
Primus pilus said:
Only the Iron Duke would have described the Battle of Waterloo as "nice".
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'nice' at his time didn't mean what it does now -
in that context, it meant just the same as 'a damned close-run thing',
as we can still say 'that's a nice question' = one that's hard to decide.
 
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