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Etre

Etre wrote:You ever just have that moment where you realize your Irish and Scottish ancestors fought for their freedom in the Jacobite wars and fought all the way from the Scottish highlands to London with nothing but swords and shields against British soldiers with muskets. Yet almost all chose to fight for Britain in the American revolution (except a few of my cousin's ancestors who fought for the Americans. Silly Americans, they can't create an independent country without tea! They'd have a lack of caffeine to have the energy to fight back.)

The Jacobites  were like "Let me just take the white X shaped Cross and the blue background from the British flag and...there we go. Good as new. SCOTLAND FOREVER" (Except the Scottish said that war cry fighting on the side of the British at Waterloo.)

https://youtu.be/f2bHoTUiMpI

Add the fact I'm mostly French and it's very interesting, the history of my ancestors seeing that flag.

Overall I like the British. I may joke about them but I like their country. (Yes I get it Britain did bad stuff in history, I'm Irish we know, but I can still appreciate how great their country is can't I?)

Now I shall share two videos. One is a Rick Roll and the other is a patriotic Scottish song about the Jacobite Risings that also has educational stuff.

https://youtu.be/VTPyvKrU1DM

https://youtu.be/j5a0jTc9S10

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