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Dutchy
 
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Reply Wed 16 May, 2007 03:49 pm
My forefathers beat you guys at the battle of Chatham, my line is an honourable one. Smile
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whiteviolet
 
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Reply Wed 16 May, 2007 05:53 pm
Never heard of the battle of Chatham!
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Wed 16 May, 2007 11:59 pm
Oh Whiteviolet my memory is still perfect as I remember all these details from my schooldays. Please have a look here, it may refresh your memory: http://www.deruyter.org/ENGLISH_SECTION_%20St.James'_Day_Fight.html

I must say we were taught a different story, but that is immaterial, the fact remains there was a battle at Chatham Laughing
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 03:03 am
Pshaw, here is an Ozzie (however Dutch) instructing Our Vi on her own history! Whatever next!?
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whiteviolet
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 05:27 am
Question: why, according to God Google, do the Dutch call the episode "the Battle of Chatham" whereas the English call it "the Medway Raid? (No wonder I was confused).
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 05:43 am
Really, well than we shall call it a draw wv, happy with that? Smile
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 06:11 am
Sure she will be, though I haven't heard of either Kentish encounter....
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Mathos
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 01:58 pm
That's because the main battles were fought in The Lake District.
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 03:58 pm
Unlikely, with the Dutch, most were in SE England or in the Colonies.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 05:14 pm
Very interesting comments. The Dutch fought all their battles at sea, we have an exclusive list of Admirals , which are still revered today for their heroic deeds.
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whiteviolet
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 07:43 pm
Well, some of us think the present and the future are more important than the past.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 09:46 pm
x-tremely good observation, we're still here to enjoy ourselves.
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 01:30 am
Yet it's funny that the Dutch have two distinct types - ultraliberal, as in Holland, and ultratraditional, as in South Africa - both quite extreme.
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 02:50 am
Zounds almighty the woman is mad, mad, totally mad!


Clary wrote:
Unlikely, with the Dutch, most were in SE England or in the Colonies.


Clary, didn't you realise that I was referring to important issues like clobbering them bloody Yorkies and chasing them into Ullswater, Windermere and Coniston.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 05:19 pm
Another clever observation by Clary about the Dutch, absolutely 100% correct, although I feel both sides could reduce their degree of extremism to function better.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 02:52 am
Battles between Yorkists and Lancastrians are too small to interest me, but the colonial Anglo-Dutch wars have some interesting fallout, like Indonesians trying to speak Dutch, and the funny language of Afrikaans, as well as the happy state of most the world wanting to learn English and thus giving me a living.
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Mathos
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 06:22 am
Can't blame that Dutchman or Hollander for finding oil on the beaches of Indonesia before anybody knew what it was and he called it Shell!
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 07:04 am
Do you know Australia has discovered enormous oil deposits near the island of Timor, nothing is being done about them, so the Government can keep oil prices in line with the rest of the world and keep raking in their high excise on petrol.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 09:09 am
East Timor?
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Mathos
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 01:42 pm
Fanatical politics.
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