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    Default Re: Without using the internets, what aircraft won the Battle of Britain?

    Quote Originally Posted by Closet_Skeleton View Post
    What the split was between Jacobites and Hanovarians didn't matter much among the Highlanders. The blood feuds meant that the moment one clan sided with one faction every other one fell into place and both sides had pretty equal support.
    Now we've been really drifting off topic.
    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    It's probably worth mentioning too that for all that Rule, Britannia! sounds like an imperative to go and take over the world, it's not really about conquest, it's about freedom and independence. The lyrics are all about how Britain will always resist tyranny and fight for her freedom; the "rule the waves" implication being that GB is an island and invaders would have to come from across the sea, so for as long as Britain rules the waves her freedom is assured.
    Same with the German. That the first part is now ommited from the official version is not so much because of "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles", since it refers to the wish of countless bickering principlaities to unite into a single nation, but mostly because three of the four borders mentioned in the song now lie outside of German territory, and the German state has renounced any claims to those areas.
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