Comments by "John Dwyer" (@pup1008) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. We have a holiday home on the Essex coast & can see Sealand from there! As a kid in the 70's they used to run boat trips out there!
    36
  2. Bring it on! We gave gave you dicks the opportunity to do just that & you blew it! I don't know about "asset stripping" but I do know under the Barnet Formula we pay for your ungrateful arse's FREE prescriptions, further education & elderly care which probably saves you on an individual basis something like £100,000 each over an English man so bring it on & we can cut that ungrateful albatross from our necks!
    2
  3. Knowing us Brits they probably broke open the wine. There was a famous incident when the Royal Navy & Marines attacked a Spanish outpost near Cadiz in Southern Spain. In the great tradition of all British military blunders the powers that be had sent the force off to attack the garrison in 37C heat with NO water. They crossed an almost desert like stretch of beach to get to the town where they found..... The wine & sherry store, sherry being the drink that part of Spain was famous for. The rest could best be described as an inglorious mess!
    2
  4. What wasn't there to love about Port Royal? Literally up to your neck in hookers & gin & rum laced with gunpowder! Add to that drunk parrots & you've got yourself a party!
    1
  5. Here in the UK, well London & the SE certainly "A Lady Godiva" is a slang term for a £5 note - Lady Godiva = "Fiver!"
    1
  6. I've got or had a British PPL & I've never heard that expression!
    1
  7. Hi, Love you channel! Need to drop this off here as I've no other way of contacting you but hope it might be of interest if it hasn't been covered already. I think every year but possibly a longer time period, representatives of the American Navy come over to the UK to mark the exploits of one John Paul Jones. My take on the story was as follows & was from the BBC "Coast" series but from reading an actual article today (link attached) might have been a bit "exaggerated" although I think this might have just been a different account of the same story. My understanding - During the American Revolutionary war the above gentleman a group of patriots took it upon themselves to jump into small boats & sail the Atlantic to attack British ships at anchor in the British port of Whitehaven. Having endured the arduous & dangerous crossing they arrived at the port & needing supplies & having not raised any concern, being of recent British descent, they made their way into the town. Having been at sea for quite awhile they found it impossible to walk passed the local boozers & subsequently fell in with some local sea salts, had a great night & all became smashed! The following morning & nursing big hangovers, they made their way back to their ship half heartedly tossed some "tar bombs" at a few moored vessels & sailed back to the States! I think the actual raid was a bit more elaborate & successful than that including Jones sailing up to his ancestral home in Scotland to abduct an earl with a view to having him exchanged for some American sailors. Apparently the earl was not home so they made do with nicking his silver including his wife's teapot which was still full of her breakfast tea! Link - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-paul-jones-leads-american-raid-on-whitehaven-england
    1
  8. I was watching an episode on how some British pirates took Jamaica at one time or another. They'd had the merry shite kick out them on a previous failed conquest & were operating with an extremely reduced injured & diseased crew. Rations also were running low. As the woman commentator put it - "With all this going on they then thought the best course of action would be to.... INVADE JAMAICA! 😆🇬🇧
    1