Who's More British...

[Cloud]

Read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. An amazing book!

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. An amazing book!

If it reads like a novel I think I will. I've been looking for a good historical. Thanks

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Australians aren't British, they're Australian.

We will be a republic before long, but achieve it peacefully in about the same amount of time it took the yanks to do it violently. (around 200 years from settlement)

Some of you have some grave misconceptions about Australia. I suggest you read your history books.

There were British and French colonies wanting this land too. I know they had bigger muskets. Sometimes the colonists didn't even have a proper weapon. After all the old Revere saying goes, " To arms, to arms." " The British are comming!." "The British are comming"


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King George III had said, "blows must decide whether they are to be subject to this country or independent." He commanded English General Thomas Gage to use force to restore royal authority.
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/200..._history.jhtml



See we never hit first. :P