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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] The tables of David and Lee
  • Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:05:48 -0400

On 10/3/04 4:12 PM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:

> Can you imagine what the result would have been 200 years ago if,
> instead of having our own American revolution, the French invaded the
> colonies to "liberate" the people from the evil tyrant King George, and
> then proceeded to establish a republic. Do you think our patriots
> would have joined the invading French army or shot at them?

Why imagine--do some research on the French and Indian War (1756-63). If we
had hailed our would-be liberators then, we might be flaming each other in
French right now instead of English ;-)

David





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