Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "History Debunked"
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@HistoryDenied 'British imperialism brought civilisation?!' The fact is that that is a credible argument. Would, for example, Australia have been better off had the aboriginal inhabitants remained at a mesolithic level of development, with a life expectancy of 40 if they were lucky?
Or India if she had remained a network of warring Princely States, instead of becoming the largest democracy on earth, and benefitting from western medicine, civil administration, legal systems, transport networks, etc?
Oh, and In 1783, an anti-slavery movement began in Britain. That year a group of Quakers founded their first abolitionist organisation. The Quakers continued to be influential throughout the lifetime of the movement, in many ways leading the campaign. By 1833, it had been abolished throughout the British Empire.
You seem to have profound difficulty in accepting than any nation other than Britain was ever involved in the practice, and still less ability to accept that Britain led the field in abolition.
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@mrfireblade900cc The facts being that Germany, without warning, invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Belgium, and, later, the Soviet Union.
Another fact being that Churchill held no government position between 1929 & September, 1939, when he became First Lord of the Admiralty in a nation already at war.
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@johnturner1073 I particularly enjoyed her comments about Waterloo, claiming that Wellington 'stole' the battle by claiming it to have been a British victory, when it was a Prussian one, and insisting that it be called 'Waterloo.'
The facts are this it was an 'Allied' victory. Wellington only fought where he did precisely because he knew Blucher was marching to support him. As to the name, that was simply because Wellington's report, the famous 'Waterloo Dispatch,' was written from his headquarters at Waterloo. The British press used the name, and, at least in the English speaking world, the name stuck.
Actually, the Dispatch was fulsome in the credit Wellington gave to Blucher.
Still, Lucy could always wear a 95th Rifles uniform and wave a Baker rifle around to contradict these inconvenient facts. Poor Horatio. By the time she has finished with you, Vlad the Impaler will look like a nice chap.
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