[higgmeister]

What is your affection for the parasitic, inbred, thieving aristocrats?

I have no affection at all for the royal families of Europe. I am proud that my Paternal GGGG Grandfather, Moses, and GGG Grandfather, Robert, fought with Colonel William Campbell's Riflemen of Virginia who defeated the Tory Officer Ferguson at the Battle of King’s Mountain and mauled Lord Cornwallis' Army in the Guilford Courthouse Campaign which lead to his surrender at Yorktown.

I simply took issue with your rewriting history to say, like William the Conqueror, William II made a conquest of England when he was invited to take the throne with Queen Mary by Parliament as the rightful Protestant rulers to depose the Roman Catholic James II, and by that action ended the "divine right of kings", establishing the principle that sovereignty derived from Parliament, not at birth.

That seems like a big difference to me.

[higgmeister]

Meaning to say, could we have had a Colonial Revolution three quarters of a century later if the belief still held that George III ruled us by divine right? Possibly not.

[wildcard_redneck]

William of Orange was invited by a small faction of the nobility. It wasn't like they took a godamned vote in Parliment. The ‘Glorious Revolution’ was an Invasion pure and simple. That is not rewriting history, it is fact. It was a military campaign organized on the continent of Europe using non-English ships. William's fleet, which with about 40,000 men aboard was roughly twice the size of the Spanish Armada – and assembled in a tenth of the time – consisted of 463 ships. Among these were 49 warships of more than twenty cannon (eight could count as third rates of 60–68 cannon, nine were frigates), 28 galliots, nine fireships, 76 fluyts to carry the soldiers, 120 small transports to carry five thousand horses, about seventy supply vessels and sixty fishing vessels serving as landing craft.

To say that this was not an invasion is idiotic. They didn't use all this ships, weapons, and men to bring flowers and chocolates to the English. The size and power of the invasion force led the English to roll on their backs like whipped dogs. The Dutch stuck it to the English and gave it to them real good.

You claim that I am rewriting history when you ignore the salient, obvious, and irrefutable facts available to anyone with the curiosity to read.