Britain Has Too Many Phony Immigrants

[Ned]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Commemorated in English/Irish folksongs.

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Wharf/1292/sallyrover.htm

The Sale Rovers were the corsairs operating out of the Moroccan Atlantic seaboard base.

One of the features of the Moroccan town of Chechaouen was a trade in boy slaves, which continued into the Twentieth Century.

But put it all into context- European adventurism in the region began centuries ago, the Vikings raided the Idrisid emirate, attacking Asilah on the Atlantic coast, and Mazimma on the Mediterranean coast, and also Lisbon, Seville, Cadiz, Medina Sidonia and Algeciras in the Emirate of Cordoba and Nakar.

It still is something of a surprise though, to see blond haired blue eyed Moroccan children in the medina or casbah of coastal towns.

Molly, there were some Romans who were blond haired who lived in Africa. Some of them could have survived 'til modern times as well.

[molly bloom]

'The girl-like Brits couldn't get out of the boats and take Algiers like the American Marines took Tripoli?'

You mean the way the girly Brits took and burned Washington?

No, the British were too busy creating the largest empire the world has ever seen.

What would have been the point in an assault by marines, when a naval bombardment succeeded? The surrender of Zanzibar was achieved by similar methods, if I recall.

Besides which, the British and the Dutch invented the 'Marines', as fighting forces, in the 17th Century- it's not as if they had anything to prove.

As for 'blond' Romans- Hollywood history, I think you'll find. Romano-Egyptian portraits on sarcophagi show what one might expect- distinctly dark, Latin looking people.
I doubt very much if any of the Roman inhabitants of Tingis or Volubilis have left behind blond genes to crop up in the casbah of Tangiers. Much more likely to have come from people captured in raids by North African pirates on places such as Baltimore in Ireland, or Mousehole or Penzance in Cornwall.

[Ned]

Originally posted by molly bloom
'The girl-like Brits couldn't get out of the boats and take Algiers like the American Marines took Tripoli?'

You mean the way the girly Brits took and burned Washington?

No, the British were too busy creating the largest empire the world has ever seen.

What would have been the point in an assault by marines, when a naval bombardment succeeded? The surrender of Zanzibar was achieved by similar methods, if I recall.

Besides which, the British and the Dutch invented the 'Marines', as fighting forces, in the 17th Century- it's not as if they had anything to prove.

As for 'blond' Romans- Hollywood history, I think you'll find. Romano-Egyptian portraits on sarcophagi show what one might expect- distinctly dark, Latin looking people.
I doubt very much if any of the Roman inhabitants of Tingis or Volubilis have left behind blond genes to crop up in the casbah of Tangiers. Much more likely to have come from people captured in raids by North African pirates on places such as Baltimore in Ireland, or Mousehole or Penzance in Cornwall.

Actually, I have read a personal diary of a Roman from Africa who was blond. It was an interesting read, as he spoke of his travels along the roads of the Empire, the bad food in the Bed and Breakfast establishments, and the girls he bedded at times, etc.

It was also my impression that both Caesar and Octavian were blonds. Ditto Alexander. However, I agree that most surviving paintings do show the Romans as brunettes.

Back to the Brits: Shelling Algiers is like Clinton bombing Iraq. It did not have any long term effect because it left the bad guys in power.

As to taking Washington, yeah, I have to hand it to you there. Where the f*ck was the US Army? We had nothing compared to the Brits. Must have been because the Democrats were in charge.