Well, they’ll always have Richard Burton...
this could never happen in this day and age, these days all they need to do to conquer a nation is to just illegally immigrate and celebrate diversity, done deal
The article omits an essential piece of tradition . . . the national dress of Welsh women basically consists of a red shawl and a tall black chimney hat. From a distance (possibly combined with the effects of looted alcohol) this could be mistaken for the uniform of a British redcoat soldier. Folklore has it that while the local men flustered, their women lined the top of a neraby hill armed with shouldered broomsticks. Thinking this was the Army Militia ready to receive them, rather than face them in battle the invaders surrendered!
“Just as ideas about equality caught fire in Paris and Philadelphia and led to the improbable spectacle of an Irish American colonel leading French ex-convicts in an invasion of Wales, people on different continents will continue to meet online and in person and the results will sometimes be fantastic and on other occasions farcical.”
Seems like 200 years later that noble idea of equality has been perverted into the one that Tocqueville called “depraved”...
“There is a passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level [Class Warfare], and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”