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   walker to William Black   
   Re: Scottish Military Defeats   
   09 Nov 06 15:49:08   
   
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   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   Puritans again? My my!   
   "William Black"  wrote in message   
   news:eindh6$c36$1@news.freedom2surf.net...   
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   > "Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
   > news:454ec049_1@news.iprimus.com.au...   
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   > . Oliver Cromwell's disciplined, well trained, well armed, well paid,   
   >> and highly motivated Puritan Army known as the Roundheads and the   
   >> Ironsides   
   >   
   > Modern research seems to indicate that they were mainly reluctant   
   > conscripts,  often recruited from  Royalist prisoners,  and they certainly   
   > were never regularly paid usually being about eighteen months in   
   > arrears...   
   >   
   > They don't seem to have been particularly Puritan either,  well,  not the   
   > infantry anyway...   
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   > --   
   > William Black   
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   > I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   > Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   > I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   > All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   > Time for tea.   
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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