Two hundred years on from the Battle of Waterloo and Britain finds itself once again in the frontline defending the independence of Europe from the imperial designs of a dictatorship that is aided and abetted by enemies within.
Reading a book, ‘Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo’, and the similarities to today are striking. The British people in revolt against an elitist tyranny that rules over them, soldiers on the street who object to being used to defend ‘might against right‘, and a European Empire looming threateningly over them.
Here’s a quote that could make you laugh or think…
‘Apart from smarting at being used as an instrument of this affluence, both officers and men also objected to the fact that quite a few of the beau monde retained considerable sympathy for Napoleon and what he stood for…alongside the butchery and destruction he had brought, those who could afford the luxury of such whims applauded much of what they assumed he stood for.’
Rings a bell doesn’t it as the ‘elite’ in Britain today seek to sell us out to the EU…..ably assisted by the BBC’s propaganda.
Apparently a popular army song of the time from soldiers of whom the majority were ‘decent, honest and ambitious and proud to be free-born Britons…with a genuine hatred of what Napoleon had done to Europe and a fear of what a British version of the French Revolution would do to their country’…
Britons strike home! Avenge your country’s cause, Protect your King, your liberties and your laws!
“Britons strike home! Revenge, revenge your country’s wrongs”, from “Bonduca, or the British Heroine”, by Henry Purcell, featured in “An Englishman’s Castle”, a BBC drama, starring Kenneth More. It is set in a supposedly nazi-occupied London in the Seventies. More’s character, a newsreader at the state broadcaster, becomes besotted with a much younger woman, whom he belatedly realises to be a member of the British Resistance.
‘Britons strike home! Revenge, revenge” is the code phrase for Britons to overthrow the invaders’ regime. Given the Beebyanka’s adoration of all things continental, even forty years ago, I’m amazed this was ever broadcast in the first place, but there are even DVDs of it. Our islamocrats plainly don’t get irony.
Times like this I wonder how Trijan Horses Schools acquired their name, and what long term purpose they may be established to propagate.
One of life’s many little ironies is that an Englishman asked for his opinion of Napoleon in, say, 1860, would have got quite heated in his total condemnation of an unprincipled tyrant whose vaunting ambition has caused mayhem and destruction throughout Europe for 20 years or so.
Fast forward to 2017 and much the same reaction could be expected from anyone asked for their opinion of Hitler. This is not to defend or justify the one against the other, yet Bonaparte is revered throughout France with shrines erected to his memory while the immense changes Hitler made in Germany, prior to WW2, dragging his country up from the degradation of the Treaty of Versailles, are consistently ignored.
Henry Ford said, apparently, ‘History is bunk’ and while you could well say it’s too sweeping a statement, history certainly changes its perspectives with the passage of time – depending, of course, on who writes the books.
Once again our attitude to European tyrants is part of what we, and particularly the English, are really about. Never liked them and never will so our EU adventure looked doomed from day one.
it probably goes back all the way to 1066. This England of ours became a tyranny as a result of a conquest. left it’s mark as these things are wont to do and there is just something about Europeans laying down their law to me that I just resent.
“the immense changes Hitler made in Germany”
Any history book which praises Hitler because of the “the immense changes” he made to Germany will rightly be put in the same dustbin as books praising “the immense changes” which Lenin made to Russia, and the “immense changes” which Mao made to China. All three were an unmitigated disaster.
Wild ,
And the immense changes Merkel made to Germany.