[colorado tanker]

The New Model Army was perhaps the best army in Europe in its day. Cromwell used then radical reforms like employing the soldiers as professionals and appointing officers based on military merit and not social standing. The Army was quite cohesive as most of the soldiers shared Cromwell's religious view.

The surprising part about the English conquest of Scotland is, why did they want it? :’)

To give the English monarchs a nice cool summer palace?

[SunkenCiv]

Andy Parsons joked (on Mock the Week) that some large number they were trying to figure out context was the number of years before climate change turned Scotland into a viable holiday destination.