Wars of Roses

[Tom.G]

Does any one have info on the Wars of Roses

[California Joe]

The one between the houses of Lancaster and York?

[XASA]

That feud is really a bit complex to be explained in a forum. The dynastic civil wars between the Yorks, whose emblem was a white rose, and the Lancasters, whose emblem was a red rose, from 1455 to 1485, for the throne of England, warrants a web search or a trip to the library.

[Deuterium]

BUt ODE said I was just a dumb American. Can you give me the Reader's Digest version in two sentances?

[Chris1]

two blokes think they are meant to be King, 'enry and Rich
both of them decide to fight it out
Henry (Red I think, Lancasters) wins, kills Rich and shags his sister, unifying the two houses
that simple enough?
Too simple?
Ah well
http://www.warsoftheroses.com/

[XASA]

BUt ODE said I was just a dumb American. Can you give me the Reader's Digest version in two sentances?

:P

[NcDeuce]

shags his sister, unifying the two houses

Got to love history.

[Flagg]

two blokes think they are meant to be King, 'enry and Rich
both of them decide to fight it out
Henry (Red I think, Lancasters) wins, kills Rich and shags his sister, unifying the two houses
that simple enough?
Too simple?
Ah well

And here I thought you Poms were the "civilized" cousins.....sounds just like a West Virginia family feud to me....especially the part about rooting the sister.

[Deuterium]

two blokes think they are meant to be King, 'enry and Rich
both of them decide to fight it out
Henry (Red I think, Lancasters) wins, kills Rich and shags his sister, unifying the two houses
that simple enough?
Too simple?
Ah well
http://www.warsoftheroses.com/

Sweet, you should do a History book. Western Civ in 3 paragraphs.....

[martinexsquaddie]

good victorian properganda
a small offshore island race does'nt conquer a third of the world by being nice
Piracy against the spanish Drug selling to the chinese backed up by military force when they tried to stop us ( my regiment still got some nice ming vases that were looted ).
india/pakistan our fault. the entire middle east our fault with a little help from the french. South africa we helped screw that up and the rest of africa. Why do you think there are hardly any Native americans left and you lot don't speak french You can also blame us for australia new zealand and canada. Bwahahahahah we're Evil and we don't care

[mocking_loudly_died]

I miss the empire.

[martinexsquaddie]

seen Firefly we are on our way back it takes 2000 years but we taken over the known galaxy but are still armed with SA80 but it apprantly works