"...and a German called William brought 10,000 troops and became King of England a few centuries later..."

Surely that 'German' was Dutch (and he had a better claim, through his missus, than most of the snail-fanciers who've tried).

Anyway, don't worry about the idea of War in the American colonies -
It's only a tax dodge to avoid paying their end of the cost of stuffing the French in the Seven Years (or as they quaintly call it 'French and Indian')War.

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