Comments by "Ben Wilson" (@benwilson6145) on "TimeGhost History" channel.

  1. Columbus understood the world wad round, however his maths was terrible. He tried to get the Portuguese to support his planned voyage and his brother tried to get the English to as well. In both countries he was laughed at due to superior knowledge, hence the East Indies, and "Indians".
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  2. As a child growing up in the 1960's on a Scottish Island I was a curios child and would ask my mum questions. I remember having several spinster Aunts of both my mother and father, also more visual was we lived on a croft and relatives would point out where widows and spinster were now leaving there house to go an Old Folks home and the houses and building's becoming derelict, this was because so many men did not come home from the war. A stark visual memory.
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  3. they also did not want to lose there own colonies either
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  4.  @Danheron2  And which ones had you let go? Not the Philippines', not Cuba, not Puerto Rica! Plus various smaller Islands
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  5.  @Danheron2  Think you will find MacArthur was still in charge of the Philippine's!!? The plan was for them to be freed in 1945.
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  6. He also wrote as a reporter for the Hearst Empire from WW1 until 1935.
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  7. There was a good side effect to the the US intervention in the Suez crisis,When the USA came looking for British support for the Vietnam war in 1966. Harold Wilson refused, so no British troops were killed in the Vietnam war.
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  8. Not WiFi, Bluetooth!
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  9.  @trajan75  Except it has not been forgotten. The Basques fished off the Grand Banks. The Normans ruled what was then called Sicily which was the Southern half of Italy and Sicily. The Vikings King of Norway took part in the Crusades and presented gifts from Vinland to the Pope. The whole Columbus Myth was invented in the USA two centuries ago. There are even people claiming he was Italian. A country that did not exist until 300 years after his death.
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  10.  @trajan75 I cannot remember where I read it but there was a report or theory that Columbus deliberately tried to sail South of Vinland. He must of done some research? He was reportedly at Bristol during his sea career and the Cabot Voyage proved that he had to sail north of Vinland to get his Northerly route to China. The Columbus myth is "He discovered "America: which he did not, and anyone not believing was shouted down.
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