So I was listening to old Scottish Jacobite songs the other day and it got me to thinking about certain moments in history and which side I would've been on had I been born then.
1) Battle of Hastings 1066-I'd have been on the English side
2) Jacobite Wars 1715 and 1745-I'd have been a Jacobite
3) 1970s Northern Ireland-I'd have been in the IRA. For that matter, a century or two earlier I'd have been one of the Irish getting dispossessed by the Scottish immigrants.
4) 1500s Mexico-I'd have tried to kill Cortez
5) 1500-1700 Americas- No surprise for guessing which side I'd be on.
This is just a short list, but as I was thinking it over, I realized they all had one thing in common. The side I sympathize with were always the losers! Which is probably why I wasn't born then.
Then my thoughts turned to my genealogy and where my European ancestors where from and where would they be during these momentous events? *Sigh* They were on the opposite sides. They were the Normans who invaded England, the royalist supporters, the Scotsmen who pushed the Irish off their land in Ulster, and a great deal of them (though not all!) were the hairy immigrants swarming onto America's shores. Hmmmmmm. This could prove to provide interesting conversations in the hereafter.
1 comment:
makes me think of how i NEED to do my geneology. not to just get it done but to know the history of my family and see how crazy they may have been:)
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