After the Romans abandoned their Celtic allies in battle against the Etruscans, the Celts marched into Rome and occupied it for more than a year. From the north…
Yikes, you’re right!
I’m pretty sure that we english have been knocking the snot out of the scots for years.
And there’s not much North of the UK that could take us on (Cod wars don’t count)
Wars aren’t decided over such sillyness. They are decided over more complex issues.
Are we forgetting the blazing civil war in the Sudan, in which the southern opposition actually has a good chance of winning outright?
grienspace, read your post again — you got East and West reversed.
:rolleyes: :mad:
Who won when Longshanks invaded? SCOTLAND did. It was only a few hundred years later that Scotland became part of the United Kingdom through diplomacy. It sucked for us Scots, being part of your damn empire, but the technicality is on our side. We won the war. It certainly wasn’t the WELSH!
And who stole the stone from the King’s Jewelry? Scots did. Not just Scots, but college-aged Scots out on some hijinks. It certainly wasn’t the WELSH!
I always thought the International Dateline separated the East from the West. Thats why we say “Pacific Northwest” to describe Washington State, and that Japan , in the Pacific Ocean, is in the east.
I think that would make a really funny new catchphrase if I could only figure out where to put it…it’s like a punchline to a joke nobody can remember…very poetic in its own way.
Oh well, you may now resume learning.
And may it someday reach the rank below “Og smash!”.
You’d better watch out.
You’d better not shout.
You’d better not cry,
I’m telling you why…
Perhaps this only applies to civil wars. Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan, after all, were pretty much civil wars with American interference on one side, and we all know American civil war. In Finnish civil war of 1918 the Whites at north defeated the Reds at South. Wasn’t this also pretty much also the case in Russian civil war, except that the Reds were at north and the Whites at south and east?
Mmm. Which side was where in the English civil war?
I don’t remember who said it first, but the only reason the English could stomp the Scotts was that the Scotts were too busy fighting their age-old enemy, the Scotts.
largely an east west war. Look at a map. Berlin is slightly north of London, but definitely east
east west, and no imposition of the victor on the loser’s capitol
Not France, but the Normans (translate Norseman, Vikings) who actually took several decades to follow a circuitous route from the north east .
Right, just fails to be conquered. No imposition on Russia’s capitol. Just nearly destroyed.
At least try to come up with better counter examples.
It was all mixed up, not regionally based.
But what it most certainly did prove is that the side with worse dress sense always loses.
Er that should be the worse dress sense wins.
When South America joined North America a few million years ago, the Northern fauna kicked some serious a$$ when they ventured south.
Native South American animals that ventured north did not fare well, one notable exception being the ever-lovin’ possum.
But the humans there, pre-colonization…those south of the Rio Grande would have kicked the crap out of those north of it. The native Americans south of the river, Aztecs and Incans. They lived in cities, had armies, advanced civilizations. If they’d ever gotten it into their heads to expand, the Indians north of the river in the current U.S. would never have stood a chance. They’d have been swatted away like flies.
But only because Mel “Braveheart” Gibson shot fireballs from his eyes and lightning from his arse.