History from different perspectives (The American Revolution

[DylPickle]

Wouldn't that be fun though? There's so many things we Canucks could teach you...

How to properly incorparate "eh" into a sentance.... How to skate.... How to complain.... How to run around a city with a flag cape and not get shot at.... :p

[Zanthos]

Personally, I don't recognize America's sovreignty. As far as I'm concerned, the so called "United States of America" is rebel held territory rightfully belonging to the British Crown.

Doesnt the fact that great britain recognises the USA invalidate that opinion?

But if you put it that way... as far as i am concerned all of europe rightfully belongs to Italy and the roman empire should be reinstated in all its former glory, complete with orgies and vomitariums!

[kinvoya]

Because no one occupied Europe before the Romans?

[formerly known as hf]

I think, you'll find, that the world belongs to the dinosaurs, and that, rightly, we should re-create them with any genetic material we can lay our hands on, allow them to multiply and destroy the human race.

It would only be to return the world the its righful rulers of history.

[kinvoya]

I'm all for it. They did a fine job of taking care of the planet as far as I can tell.

[Zanthos]

I must third the dinosaur idea.'

And as for why romans should have all of europe, thats because im italian of course.

[saztronic]

The dinosaurs only supplanted the rightful and glorious rule of the trillobytes. Reptilian bastards. Trillobytes leave cooler fossils too.

[Schme]

But if you put it that way... as far as i am concerned all of europe rightfully belongs to Italy and the roman empire should be reinstated in all its former glory, complete with orgies and vomitariums!

Don't be rediculous. The Roman Empire was partitioned into two separate empires hundreds of years ago.

There's so many things we Canucks could teach you...

How to properly incorparate "eh" into a sentance.... How to skate.... How to complain.... How to run around a city with a flag cape and not get shot at.... :p

How to fight without a gun.

Doesnt the fact that great britain recognises the USA invalidate that opinion?

Not in the least.

[Schme]

I think, you'll find, that the world belongs to the dinosaurs, and that, rightly, we should re-create them with any genetic material we can lay our hands on, allow them to multiply and destroy the human race.

Dinosaurs were tresspassers on Her Royal Highnesses land who didn't pay taxes. That's why I got rid of them.

[Nick]

Extinction without representation.

[nitefyre]

Right after working on the Zine, I was finishing up an extended essay on the Seven Years War in North America, i.e. the effect of the War on indigenous populaces (e.g. the Iroquois Confederacy). As CJ was hinting at, Churchill ascribed this war as the "first world war" in the sense of it being fought from India to Europe to the Americas.

Didnt the 7 years war end with the french and indian war? Sure, the aftermath of that war saw the levying of said taxes but I wouldn't say the american revolution was the end of it.

The French and Indian War was actually more like the start of it, with (ironically) George Washington's troop (under the British flag) firing the first shot against a French officer, Jumonville. This incident gave the French the excuse to declare war on the British, although in Europe it was not brought about for another two years (NB: the vast distances from the backlands of Pennsylvania to the Two Cities).

Indeed this theatre of the War in North America ended before the broader conflict with Wolfe's epic victory over Montcalm for all of Canada from the French on the Fields of Abraham, where both European Generals died in fighting (there is a famous painting of this as well as a text by a slightly dated Francis Parkman).

PM William Pitt, probably one of the finest England has seen, warned sullenly against the levying of taxes on their colonial brethren (and furthermore saw the drawing of the Line of Proclamation, angering the westward/wayward colonists). He literally died of stroke from it. A most captivating time of history.

Pie wrote:
Wait, there was an unoficial first world war?

Or are you talking about the nepolianic wars?


CJ: No I'm talking about the Seven Years War (1756 to 1763) , multiple opponents fighting across continents including the campaigns against the French in North America. The affects of these war (including the state of the British Exchequer) had a direct impact on the American Revolution

Effect (noun), not affect (verb).

[Torn]

Personally, I don't recognize America's sovreignty. As far as I'm concerned, the so called "United States of America" is rebel held territory rightfully belonging to the British Crown.

Doesnt the fact that great britain recognises the USA invalidate that opinion?

But if you put it that way... as far as i am concerned all of europe rightfully belongs to Italy and the roman empire should be reinstated in all its former glory, complete with orgies and vomitariums!

Not to mention that almost all the slavic countries would be in the possesion of the motherland(Russia).

[Schme]

Don't be silly. The Tsars are long dead. The Queen, on the other hand, is alive and well, and has a line of succession to deal with more or less every deal that could come up.

[Pie]

I dissagree. The eastern world belongs to the mongols, with the middle east contested betwean the mongols and macedonia and the arabs, Africa belongs to Mansa musa of that one empire... Malasia, south america belongs to spain, North america belongs to the indians, and Europe is contested between rome, the catholic church, and the Huns.

Australia belongs to the australians, becaus of there cool hats and accents.

[Schme]

None of what you're saying has any basis, Pie, except for who used to be around. Her Royal Majesty is around TODAY, and that's what's up.