I see that underneath your name it says: 'Fearful Jesuit'.
The Dutch Catholics were emancipated by the Revolutionaries. For such, amongst others, was the 'tyranny' the French armies brought: freedom of religion.
The worth of the nationalist-protestant-monarchist variant of Dutch history, I shall decide with my bummy-bum, in a moment when I visit the toilette.
We are going of on all sorts of tangents in this thread. Your thoughts about the nature of power are not more off-topic than Cromwell, Napoleon or republicanism.Originally Posted by Swordsmaster
By all means debate your preference for monarchs if you feel like it. Where's the fun if we don't disagree with one another?![]()
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