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[highland145]

Zero. The English never conquered Scotland.

Portions of Southern Scotland were briefly occupied a few times. Your point?

Point....haggis.

Yeah.

😉

 

[IronWing]

Zero. The English never conquered Scotland.

Portions of Southern Scotland were briefly occupied a few times. Your point?

The English surely did conquer every last inch of Scotland. The Act of Union of 1707 sealed the deal.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Zero. The English never conquered Scotland.

Portions of Southern Scotland were briefly occupied a few times. Your point?

Just taking the piss. Don't fret, by heredity I'm as much conqueror as conquered.

 

[KMFJD]

 

[dank69]

 

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[mikeymikec]

 

[lxskllr]

Huh... Turns out you can fix stupid. Learn something every day :^)

 

[kage69]

The English surely did conquer every last inch of Scotland. The Act of Union of 1707 sealed the deal.
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Nope, not a conquest. That was a willing, voluntary union. They weren't added, they became (along with England) a part of something new, the Parliament of Great Britain. They had already shared a monarch for a hundred years or so by then, James VI.

 

[kage69]

Not just torn apart. Torn apart and drowned. So much worse.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Nope, not a conquest. That was a willing, voluntary union. They weren't added, they became (along with England) a part of something new, the Parliament of Great Britain. They had already shared a monarch for a hundred years or so by then, James VI.

Why wasn't it called the parliament of great Scotland?

Edit: nm, til that was always the name of the island. They should have dropped the great and called it Albion, that was much cooler.

 

[pmv]

Not the greatest advert for Christianity. I believe one of the early Anglo-Saxon or Celtic kings to convert to Christianity had, soon after his conversion, an infant son die of pneumonia as a direct result of his baptism ceremony. You'd think people would decide to stick to worshipping Thor, (or whatever Gods pre-Christian Africans worhsipped), after events like that.

Maybe it was the wrath of Sobek

 

[mikeymikec]

 

[IronWing]

Nope, not a conquest. That was a willing, voluntary union. They weren't added, they became (along with England) a part of something new, the Parliament of Great Britain. They had already shared a monarch for a hundred years or so by then, James VI.

It was a conquest. Every Scottish lord was an English hack. Sharing a monarch is a gentle way of saying that the Scottish lords were bowing to an English king.

 

[kage69]

It was a conquest. Every Scottish lord was an English hack. Sharing a monarch is a gentle way of saying that the Scottish lords were bowing to an English king.

Disagree, huge difference between northern and southern Scots when it came to England back then. The actual attempts at conquest were defeated by the Scots, twice.

The union was a 100+ year old idea jumped at due to Scottish financial disaster, fear of France, and English gold buying off those who protested.

More a merger really.

 

[kage69]

 

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[Paratus]

Nope, not a conquest. That was a willing, voluntary union. They weren't added, they became (along with England) a part of something new, the Parliament of Great Britain. They had already shared a monarch for a hundred years or so by then, James VI.

Ya but the highlanders got their asses handed to them at the battle of Culloden in 1743 if I recall and the British basically forced their way of life underground after that.

I mean let’s face it Scotland’s history is mostly inter-clan fighting followed by the Brits saying “hey why don’t we invade Scotland” every couple of decades.

 

[Charmonium]

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Disagree, huge difference between northern and southern Scots when it came to England back then. The actual attempts at conquest were defeated by the Scots, twice.

The union was a 100+ year old idea jumped at due to Scottish financial disaster, fear of France, and English gold buying off those who protested.

More a merger really.

Is that where that 'no true scotsman' fallacy comes from? 😛

 

[highland145]

Daheck you guys going on about?

There can be only 1....hmm, wait, I'm 145. Beats #938 I guess.

 

[Paratus]

Daheck you guys going on about?

There can be only 1....hmm, wait, I'm 145. Beats #938 I guess.

Speaking of which here’s a pic we took of Dunvegan Castle the ancestral home of the Clan Macleod (Conner Macleod - there can be only one)

And inside the castle we were surprised to find this portrait that became part of a famous current meme:

 

[kage69]

It's him!