Same old, same old....
Cuts, cuts, cuts and the government always pleading poverty. Anyone notice a pattern here?
Alert! The dastardly Dutch are sailing a 90-ship fleet at Blighty
The Dutch are preparing to invade English seas with a fleet of 90 vessels after a previous expedition boarded the Royal Navy’s flagship and stole the Royal Coat of Arms from her. In a celebration of Dutch Admiral De Ruyter’s 1667 raid on Chatham Dockyard, which resulted in English flagship HMS Royal Charles being boarded and …
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Sunday 26th February 2017 06:13 GMT James Ashton
Commemorate the Bombardment of Flushing
If the Dutch get too out of hand after sailing from Vlissingen, seems like an appropriate response would be some kind of return visit a few weeks later to celebrate the 208th anniversary of the bombardment and capture of the French port of Flushing. Surely they've got the mosquitoes under control there by now.
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Sunday 26th February 2017 23:03 GMT eionmac
Had England no cash to hire Scots Sailors?
1. It seems some wayward Scots fought back, but many were in the Dutch side. Maybe England can hire some part time Scots sailors /out of work fisher folk to greet the Dutch folk.
2. PS I am some what biased. a Scots exile in England these past 60 odd years with happy memories of time in The Netherlands.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
