They came for better opportunity and freedom of religion. And Shlup put it very nicely.
They came for better opportunity and freedom of religion. And Shlup put it very nicely.
To this day I still hate tea. Darn wacky Brittish.
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And we got the tea by getting a large group of the Chinese population addicted to Opium.
God bless the British empire.
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I always heard they were trying to succesfully mate a human and goat.Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
One of the most ironic parts of the entire tea issue is that at one point the British substantially lowered the price of tea to keep the Dutch East India company (I believe) out of bankruptcy, as they had a massive surplus of tea, but the colonists thought it was a trick to make them buy more tea and became more infuriated than they would have been had prices simply been raised a bit.
omfg this is all true? i always thought martians goats gypsies and hippies merged together into americans and they lived happily ever after
man the Brit empire seemed to be insane then wow now i know why us brits are madder than mad jack mc mad the winner of the worlds maddest man award
LET THE HAMMER FALL
there was a picture here
awww tell us the rest of your story Del fascinating hypothesis i always thought Americans were alien life forms who bred with humans to try and make super humans to be an army but failed and they dumped them on an island we now call A mer.. err damn i cannot read this fuzzy writing or spell or say this name
LET THE HAMMER FALL
That, my good friend, would be the origin of Canada. Common mistake.I always heard they were trying to succesfully mate a human and goat.
Last edited by Rase; 07-05-2005 at 07:28 AM.
Boy am I an unfunny ass.
They don't have to love each other. :rolleyes2
Britain landed on the East Coast of what you know as the United States some four hundred years ago. They almost immediately began trading with Indians. The American Indians helping the English and those helping the French (Who were settling in Quebec, aka New France). They basically killed of the rest of the Native American tribes with alcohol and diseases that the natives haven't developped immunities for.
In 1759-1760, New England/Britain took over the colony of New France (Quite easily, actually). They seriously decreased the size of the colony. However, 25 or so years later, Britain feared a revolution, and thus created the Quebec Act which was meant to appease the Local French Canadians. A lot of territory was added, including the Ohio Valley. (I THINK) This seriously angered the Americans. Thus, the American Revolution.
This was a great strategy on America's part. They wouldn't have won any one on one battles, so they used a form of Gorilla Warfare, taking off the British piece by piece.
After the war, the Loyalists (Those still loyal to the British Crown) fled to Quebec in fear of being hanged. Britain then passed the Constitutional Act of 1791 due to the arrival of the Loyalists in Quebec (Remember, Quebec at this point is part of the British Empire). However, that is for another history lesson.
didn't he get an emmy for that?
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