In your opinion, what point marked the beginning of the end before the collapse of the British Empire? Not the death throes, of course, but the event(s) that eventually led to them.
True. Remind me if I'm wrong, but didn't his mother insist on raising him in the US after a point because of the treatment he was getting in the company of other social elites because he was "corrupted" with the American part? Well, their loss our gain. Good man, great handling of the Germano-American diplomatic crisis of the age.When Winston Churchill, who came from a prominent British Family, emigrated to the US, and went to work for the US government against the British Empire.
This ain't the ASB section, dear heart. You can go back to your brit-wanking fanasies in private now.-snip-
Indeed Indeed, I fear had he not successfully negotiated the Treaty of Trier with the 2nd HREGN and that cooler heads had not prevailed in Vienna, we would have been locked in a continued arms race with Imperial Germany. Unfortunely, for Britain, without America and Germany at each other's throats anymore they could both turn their attention to their mutal enemy.True. Remind me if I'm wrong, but didn't his mother insist on raising him in the US after a point because of the treatment he was getting in the company of other social elites because he was "corrupted" with the American part? Well, their loss our gain. Good man, great handling of the Germano-American diplomatic crisis of the age.
This ain't the ASB section, dear heart. You can go back to your brit-wanking fanasies in private now.
Say what you will, but I lived through the Scottish War of Independance, and that was horrific. When they took Newcastle and the Government Nuked just to score a tactical victory... *shudders*