On 9-6-2017 22:39, Stephen wrote:
> On 6/9/2017 9:16 PM, ingo wrote:
>> in news:593a4cf4$1@news.povray.org Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>>> I'll rise my glass of claret to that
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-40175458
>>>
>>
>> Is this the one called "glorius revolution", the one the Brits don't
>> count
>> in the number of defeats and being concurred?
>
> My understanding is that the "Glorious Revolution" started with an
> invitation to Prince of Orange. So it doesn't count.
> The backlash is still going on in Northern Ireland, though.
>

I concur with Stephen. That was a different course of events. I think 
that the expression "most glorious defeat" was given to the battle in 
order to save face. :-)

>> An interesting read, the book,
>> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/05/featuresreviews.guardianrevi
>>
>> ew5
>>
>
> I got this when I followed the link:
> Sorry - we haven’t been able to serve the page you asked for.
>
> The link is broken by page wrap. :(
>

Same for me.

-- 
Thomas

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