“1—Britain/the UK/Great Britain and England are NOT the same thing. Got that?. Britain/UK/GB is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nor is Scotland part of England.”
Got that. Hence my inquiry.
“That is why, as a Scotsman, I am BOTH Scottish and British.”
You’re British because the Brits forced themselves upon you, not once, but many times. Read about Edward Longshanks.
“Both sides of my own family (one Highland, one Lowland) wore those red coats and fought AGAINST the Jacobites. And did so proudly.”
And THAT explains EVERYTHING!!!! I support the Jacobites AGAINST the Hanoverian intruders!! I SEE what kind of Scotsman YOU are!!!
I was not aware so many Scots traitors supported those damn Hanoverians.
1—The English never conquered Scotland.
Scotland JOINED the UK in 1707 BECAUSE the English invited Scotland in, due to their failure to conquer Scotland. From 1018 to 1640, the English invaded many times, but failed to permanently conquer Scotland.
Men like Longshanks saw their English armies driven out of Scotland. Sometimes it took weeks or months, sometimes it took a few years, but the English, like they failed to do with France, failed to conquer Scotland, as they did successfully with Wales and Ireland.
I know my own country’s history MUCH better than you. I dont need to read any history, I know it, much better than you ever will.
2—The Jacobites supported the reinstatement of a Catholic monarch, and the Stuart dynasty had caused one civil war in 1642, a Scottish protestant rebellion in the 1660’s, and another uprising in 1688 in England and Scotland.
They had been arrogant monarchs who believed in divine and absolute power (Charles I started two wars against Scotland and suspended Parliament because they wouldnt agree to his demands, all of this in just four years). Those opposed the Jacobites simply didnt want another Catholic king from the ‘James line’.
3—Your ignorance of history is astonishing. The Hanoverians sit on the British throne BECAUSE of their Scottish blood!.
The Hanoverians took the British throne in 1714 BECAUSE George I (’german georgie’) was the grandson of Princess Elizabeth of Hanover.
And she was SCOTTISH. In fact, she was the daughter of James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland. In other words, she was a Stuart princess, and her descendants
The current Royal Family are not ‘German’ or ‘intruders’. They are the rightful lineage. A Scottish Protestant Stuart lineage.
Your knowledge of Scottish, English and British history is awful.