So we crossed the Channel, under less than legal circumstance, and with a little cutting and slicing found the promised land.
We got bored with that and went with some discord to the Western Shores.
Now Talking about the Spanish and their faults, First University in Mexico, first Hospitals, first Legal System.
You do not need to be insulting-I’m not doing that.
I’ve studied history avidly since I was old enough to read-military history before the invention of firearms is particularly interesting, as are the politics and motivations behind most of the wars then.
I’ve always rather admired the Vikings who became frenchified-they certainly added to the character of Normandy. From all I’ve read, William of Normandy appeared to have had just about as good a claim on the throne left by Edward the Confessor as Harold did-and with the in-fighting, disarray, etc who can really blame him for taking advantage of that? And the French in Canada and the US early on appear to have gotten along with the Native population better than anyone else from Europe at that time-they were certainly better than the Spaniards. MrT5 was of French Canadian ancestry-most of his family still live in Quebec, and he may have colored my opinion about that.
Many of the descendants of the Spaniards are still not nice people-old world or new. They may have done good things, but they still adore corruption-look at how the narco mafia still rules Mexico, Central and parts of South America, and it goes almost unchecked