Comments by "Johnny Pickles" (@johnnypickles5256) on "How did the English Colonize America?" video.

@scintillam_dei lies? Spains writers of the siglo de oro wrote your first travels and they left out many facts, the fact is you deny things that are easy to,prove, just follow some common sense and youll find you werent as nice as you think you were. Every imperialist killed, enslaved and did what they had to do to get power and riches, andvspain isnt an exception. The first writer of la leyenda negra was bartolomé de las casas,neither dutch nor english,just remember that
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@rayhankhan8992 every imperialist power had slave labour, more slaves went south, than north and they still ended less powerful
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@scintillam_dei blas de Lezo hid in a fortress and waited for the rains, disease killed that particular battle nevertheless a loss Is a loss. The previous cartagena de Indians battle was won by drake, so it was well reinforced, with a harbour which wasnt deep enough for ships to anchor, therefore it proved a logistical nightmare for the few that were healthy. The armada was a rushed job after the English attacked Spanish ports, the main idea was a landing not a sea battle. The invasion was defended against and Spain lost. History is full of losses
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@scintillam_dei you should Inform yourself on who carried out the genocides in North America, because it wasn't the British
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@scintillam_dei the main genocides were carried out by the American expansion west and their many colonial inmigrants. The British had treaties with them and respected their land. In the war of independence 5 of the 7 tribes in the 13 colonies fought with the British. I'm fact the war in 1812 was also about protecting their lands as well as avoiding an invasion of Canada. Read up before you start criticising
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@scintillam_dei I think youre not well. Spain did wipe out huge percentages of natives with disease and slave labour, they also regenerated the population with slaves. The racial mixing in South america has much influence from the slaves brought there. Not all natives were wiped out, there many more in central and south America than in the North but a large percentage was lost during imperialism. The Crown had many laws in place to protect the natives in America, Australia and New Zealand the colonials were another matter. You need yo read up before you talk nonsense. Coming from Honduras I can see why you're so bitter
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@scintillam_dei you're not Spanish you're from Honduras aren't you? By the way British don't depict Spain as anything, the chip on their shoulders is all theirs. The past is the past
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@scintillam_dei you're definitely not well, good bye weirdo
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@scintillam_dei they killed through battles and slavery, tortured the unconverted, and spread the disease unknowingly or otherwise, the fact is many more millions died in the South than the North.
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@scintillam_dei tu naciste tonto que tiene que ver la nacionalidad con la raza??? Desde luego que no te aclaras y solo buscas enfrentamiento, dale el coñazo a otro anda que la vida es muy corta. Estas tan equivocado que tu resentimiento o complejo te trastorna
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@scintillam_dei se te va la olla, deja la hierba
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@scintillam_dei gullible??? At 53? Nah it's experience and knowledge or you think I haven't read the crap you're talking about before?
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@scintillam_dei you are not very receptive to what is said, I've maintained that imperial power all did evil things by today's standards but life was like that, its you that thinks you're a cut above morally to others and that's not the case. I was brought up. In Spain, studied their history to uni level, it's a hobby of mine and I can assure you I've never read a British book talking about the leyenda negra as something that at the time wasn't common practice, nevertheless they did torture, kill, force convertions and trade in slaves. Spain's problem was the Catholic Church and the power they had over them. Maybe a joint venture but it was them that destroyed their empire and submitted them to become obsolete as far as modernisation. They were left behind after utrecht and never recovered
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@scintillam_dei some other time I'm expecting a Spanish lady, Tara. What question would that be??? You seem to ramble on without much logic
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@scintillam_dei you've checked mate me??? Lol you've said nothing of content, you have a puzzling way of thinking. I know your culture better than you if you consider yourself Spanish, you're no contest
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It was about catholicism, not so much one or the other youve mentioned.the armada was sent with the popes blessing. Privateering was already being carried out by france and holland well before drake and Spain was the vaticans right hand man. The up risings in holland might have,been a minor reason which they sorted in post war treaties, the fact was to defeat protestantism and for the dutch and english to get away from Catholic dominance. In those centuries wars wer mainly religious. But they were all influential
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@HuesingProductions I think you've got the date wrong if you're talking about the counterarmada. And if so that wasn't their intention, they simply wanted to sink it to gain power over the seas
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@HuesingProductions englands intention was never to invade Spain, all England wanted was to trade and knocking out spains fleet wouldve made it easier. Drake went too far, was unlucky as he couldnt attack because of the weather in various ports,l it was a defeat but spains never again tried to invade England and left it alone to its protestantism. Catholicism from then on lost a lot of ground all around europe,and a eventually lost its power to other imperialists.
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@Trolasso_Gazpachero I Iive in Spain with the Spaniards, I've lived in Catalunya with catalanes, I've lived with basques in the basque country and I've lived in Madrid and navarra with more Spaniards. My knowledge is wide and varied. My daughter is Spanish and my partner too, I'm basically as Spanish as anybody here in appearance, but I'm from Yorkshire, Leeds in my blood and that is too strong a tie to give up, however I like to think I'm objective and can back up all I have to say
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Theres a sequel to it, Elisabeth I, and Elisabeth the ii, who knows she might be the new rocky
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@lastprussian71 it was Blas de Lezo and he knew them in battle
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@Trolasso_Gazpachero every countrys historians have their own agenda,
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@Trolasso_Gazpachero well I'd be very sceptical of the Spanish version of history, I lived and studied there for over 35 years and if it was up to them they were the best thing since sliced bread.
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@Trolasso_Gazpachero you associate nationality with arrogance and that is very dangerous, even in England there are differences in culture and way of thinking, North and south, as there is in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. I have many friends from all those nationalities you've mentioned and by contrata met other people who were not the same, you get all sorts. In the case of the battle there were about 5 galleons sunk or captured but many more were hit. On their way round the islands having been blown of course many sank because of the damaged received. The fact is not do much how many were sank or not, the fact is the Spanish tried to invade but couldn't, that's where the victory lays. It was an attempt to pick more troops up in the low countries and then invade Britain, they were disorganised a D were attacked by faster and better prepared English ships dispersing them on 3 occasions. The chase and storm did the rest. Many came to ground around Scotland and Ireland and were either killed or taken prisoners. Spainish historians always make it sound as if it was just the storm, but they leave out other important details. There was a German documentary a few years back on wreckaged galleons found around the British and Irish coasts and evidence was found to suggest the calibre of cannon balls did not match the cannons, that shows why I said it was disorganised and also why they couldn't fire against the English ships. To answer your hispanists comment, many are British and have received awards from the príncipe de Asturias awards, I think that says its not always propaganda. I can tell you that I've done my schooling in both countries including my degree, and I've found my studies in England more objective with less criticism of Spanish imperealim than viceversaanglophobia is more present in Spain. They fail to take criticism on the chin on slavery, forced convertions to Catholicism, pillaging, indoctrination, and genocide whether by illness or by the sword. They instead come up with ridiculous excuses like legislation, church building and culturising the natives and negative propaganda and lies. The common sense of the situation is there to be analised the conquistadores went there to conquer and get rich, to get the silver and gold out of the mines they need slaves and cool the superstitious natives down they needed both the church and sword. I leave it with you
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@Trolasso_Gazpachero I've also been south, my mother's partner was from Jaén, and I've worked for a guy from Sevilla and been dozens of times to Málaga, Cádiz, Granada, Córdoba, Jaén and Sevilla. Spain is always fun where ever you go, and my criticism, if any is not with its people, its with the corruption of its politicians, which seems to me after studying Spanish history for so long a recurrenttheme since the Catholic Kings. Its a shame that such generous and friendly people are under such fools. However I still don't agree with many of its historians versions, the world was that way centuries ago and it mustn't be taken out of context like it is. You can't measure history by today's standards that's all I've been saying. All imperialists stole, killed and got rich at the expense of others and that's factual. And the comment of the sliced bread is a criticism on glorifying its history without necessity, today's Spain or Britain shouldn't be measured by how it acted centuries ago.
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