[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:22:31PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:18:28 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:18:35AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:21:23 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > > The Britain I remember was perfectly willing to commit genocide
> > 
> > The scourging of the glens after Culloden in 1725 would be closer,
> > when the English army went through as much of Scotland as it could
> > reasonably get to, killing everything that moved -- men, women,
> > children, sheep...
> 
> 1 .. It appears to be 1746

Sorry, my error, Culloden was 1745, not 1725.


> 3 .. Have you a source for this 'scrourging of the glens' ? I did a
>      quick google and found nothing, although there are plenty of
>      wordy descriptions of the battle and the aftermath.

Not a quick one that I could find for you.  Try "scouring of the glens",
that was another term used.


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