brianstrousers said:So its not true that they were on the side of whoever was winning in WW2 and their national flag was the white one?Corky said:That's why they ruled the whole of Europe for centuries so long, taught us how to fight and created Manchester.
Any more wisdom?
And then you've got the gears on their tanks.....etc etc etc
And England dutch farmers in a boer war, so that is the one war to judge the nation by. The best armies in history with a 500 year old empire would have had no war heroes. It was a republic from the Italian peninsula that ruled us for so long and not the other way round, we were slaves to them.