Comments by "jpsholland" (@jpsholland) on "US Marine reacts to Dutch Air Assault Brigade" video.

  1.  @matthiasdebruijn1113  If you call every army which is transported by boat "marines", then the Romans invented it.
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  2.  @Mhvn1987  No, the other way around. The English had so soldiers on a chip, but the Dutch was a real marine corps very much like it is today. But politics love to chance history.
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  3.  @wouter8294  The Roman empire had then 200 BC. So what do we call Marines? A soldier on a boat? Then we can probably go back for 10.000 years when the Chinese cross the sea to become the latter Japanese.......
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  4. English is a young language that has a lot of old-Dutch in it and Frisian as well. (Frisian is a old Scandinavian language still spoken in the north of the Netherlands. I think it is not that hard for you to learn to understand and even speak Dutch. Reading and writing will be a different ball game.
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  5. The Romans brought large quantities of soldiers by boat. Among them the feared famous X legion to Africa. So if "coming from a boat" is similar to a Marine, the Roman had it about 200BC.
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  6. That are the languages where english, the youngest language, is coming from.
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