Text 11078, 35 rader
Skriven 2010-10-03 15:32:58 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 11024 av David Drummond (3:640/384)
Ärende: Pirate Party
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Replying to a message of David Drummond to Bob Ackley:

 DD> On 2/10/10 17:10, Bob Ackley -> Ward Dossche wrote:

 WD>>> In French for example, the "Falkland Islands" have always been known
 WD>>> as the "Iles Malouines" ... the "Malvinas".

 BA>> AFAIK Britan has owned and occupied the Falklands since they wre
 BA>> discovered, and they were uninhabited at the time.

 DD> Are you sure?

Actually I'm not.  But they ween't inhabited by Argentines.  Note that
whoever inhabited a country didn't make much difference to the Brits,
they just moved in and took over.  Australia, India, South Africa and
New York are salient examples.  Didn't matter much to the US either,
in 1898 when it conquered and annexed the independent Kingdom of Hawaii.

While the US did finally turn the Philippines loose, it still holds Samoa and
Guam, among other places in the Southwest Pacific islands.  Both of which
were taken from Spain (along with the Philippines) in the Spanish-American
War.

I have a copy of a map, vintage around 1750, doesn't show Argentina at
all, the area - including much of what is now Chile - is labelled
'Magellenica.'  Paraguay is much bigger on the map than it is today,
as it includes all of what is now Uruguay and a good piece of what is
now Brazil.  MIxico, aka New Spain, encompassed a goodly hunk of what is
now the southwestern USA, Cuba, Mexico, Central America, Colombia,
and Venezuela.  From the book "The Influence of Sea Power upon History,
1660-1805," by Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1980, Bison Books (reprinted, Mahan
has been dead since 1914).

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