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23-07-2014 10:12pm#1
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Correct about the cross of St Patrick (the red saltire) which was not included until after the Act of Union which didn't occur until after the American Revolution.
As for the Cross of St George being wrong: if you say so but that's just showing off!
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I amuse myself in conversation with my friends from the US by referring to that event as their “First Civil War”.:pac:
FWIW, the Cross of St George should be regular i.e. the horizontal bar (Bar of Humanity) and the vertical (Bar of God) should be the same width. So named because the horizontal represents Jesus' arms embracing all mankind and the vertical bar is the direction in which Christ rose from earth to Heaven/God.0 -
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I remember a story once of how an Irish soldier in the British Army that was routed at Castlebar in 1798 was found drunk in the town some days after the battle (rebels must've been gone by then) and was court-martialed. When the Judge charged him with desertion he replied "beggin' your pardon your honour but t'was the army who were the deserters for I stayed where I was"
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