"Remember, you are the free soldiers of a free people.
Go forth, show yourselves like men, and your enemies will as snow in the sun melt before you."
Which battle and which general?
Answers by comment please.
(With thanks to the new edition of the NTS magazine, Scotland in Trust.)
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This is a total guess; is it the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden?
Wa it ally MacLeod, Scotland -v- Holland, Argentina, 1978?l
Keith
Fantastic guess; correct.
Stirring, inspiring words, aren't they?
(This is known as lighting the blue touch-paper and retreating into a sturdy trench. Heeee!)
"Boost for green energy as National Grid does U-turn on charges"
Another 'Nat Myth Busting' Myth busted
Your starting to appear very shabby, what with the Uk Government making a mockery of nyou 'general wade' chorus claim and not National grid riding a coach and horses through your logic for increased charges in Scotland.
Where will it end?
Not sure exactly what you are getting at SM. There of course is a tradition of "jacobitism" in the nationalist movement, but Nat=Jacobite is a bit more complicated.
Salmond himself denounced Charles Edward Stuart as a rogue and a chancer on a Grampian TV programme back in the 1990's.
However condoning the activities of the "Butcher" after Culloden, well-----
To be honest I could write a paralell piece about Hussitism and its links to Czech nationalism and how the live cremation (in all senses of the word) of a heretical, maverick Czech preacher with a chauvenist streak in the 15th century was used as a pillar for the construction of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and now is a foundation of the present Czech state.
As written on the Hus memorial in Prague which was unveiled in 1915 (500 years after the execution):
"I too believe before God that when the storms of wrath have passed, to thee shall return the rule over thine own things, O Czech people!"
(Comenius 1628)
Tomas Masaryk, Edvard Benes, Jan Hus, Battle of Bila Hora, Battle of Vitkov Hill, etc
Discuss!
"Boost for green energy as National Grid does U-turn on charges"
Muttley - do you ever bother to read the guff you put up?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7069287.ece
"Hedd Roberts, electricity charging manager at National Grid, said that charges for northern Scotland of between £30 and £35/kW were now more likely. Although still a 50 per cent increase..."
So the "U-turn" actually means that Grid have found a way to make the INCREASE smaller than originally planned.
The principle that Scottish generators pay most and Scottish consumers pay LEAST still stands.
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