Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, Dave, will you sleep easier if I concede as well? If so, I do. If not, I still concede. -- Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Jenkins" <djphoto@vol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: [Leica] Historical Cavil > Marc James Small wrote: > > "King George III was the first of the House of Hanover to speak English > more > fluently than German -- his great-grandfather, George I, spoke virtually > no > English, and his grandfather, George II, preferred German to English. > > George III was also King of Hanover. He had no connection with Prussia > save that both he and the King of Prussia were electors in the Holy > Roman > Empire. > > The German troops employed by the British in the American Revolutionary > War > were Hessians. George III had no connection with Hesse, either: these > guys were hired by the British government. > > Wilhelm II was the grandson, not the nephew, of Queen Victoria. His > mother > was Victoria's oldest child. Wilhelm was the nephew of King Edward VII, > > who had a habit of treating Wilhelm as a petulant child. (Victoria had > been much more successful in keeping Wilhelm's self-destructive > tendencies > at bay.)" > > > I stand corrected, Marc. I taught my last history class in 1970, before > abandoning the classroom for a career in photography. I obviously have > forgotten a lot of the details, and should have checked it out myself! > > However, my basic point still stands: George III was far from being the > quintessential Englishman. > > >