Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Tony Christney <tchristney@telus.net>
wrote:

>  >> True enough but then how often do "insurgents" not have outside
help?
>  >
>  > As far as I know, once in human history.
>
>  Where, in Haiti in the 1790s?

I was actually thinking, more recently, Eritrea.

Haiti does seem to qualify, however.  There are a series of reasons
WHY the Hatians beat their former masters solidly but foreign support
is, unusually, not on the list.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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