Argie Brits

[trubrit2411]

Five generations and they still speak English with an English Accent. Wonder if they got any flak during the FI War ?

The Amerindians suffered high fatalities from disease and the outright warfare waged by ranchers and bounty hunters; by 1920 their population on the island had dropped to only 200. News of the atrocities and genocide reached the Federal Congress in Buenos Aires. It sent aid and tried to help the Salesian mission, the only institution working in the island to protect the indigenous peoples

They were still hunting down and killing the native population with Bounty Hunters as late as 1920..... WTF ?

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p072vy4t/the-remote-farm-at-the-edge-of-the-world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_del_Fuego

[trubrit2411]

Selknam Genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selk%27nam_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Genocide

[bob9739]

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Like I always say, you learn something new on here every day ! interesting stuff that, their demise due to other peoples greed.

[RAB]

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There are some down there that are from Wales and still speak there native language.

[trubrit2411]

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Like I always say, you learn something new on here every day ! interesting stuff that, their demise due to other peoples greed.

Bob..... They were still hunting the poor bastards down and shooting them as late as 1930. Eastern Euros by the looks of it. Bulgarian and Croats. Twats.

Wonder if any of our gang was in on it ?

[billy meikle]

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nice place the farm at the end of the world, sad about the genocide there and elsewhere

[Don the Mod]

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Tony, there's a Patagonian Welsh colony in Argentina too. I think it was Pat who told of a Welsh speaker in 3Para who was translating from an Argie Welsh speaker?

[bob9739]

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Well he was in the right area for shagging sheep, or penguins as your fancy takes you !

[Pat Harley]

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There's somewhere over there where a load of Cornish miners emigrated in the 19th century,to run their mining industry,where they have Cornish pasty competitions every year!

[bob9739]

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Cornish Pasties, love them go down well with a nice dark beer.

[trubrit2411]

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There's somewhere over there where a load of Cornish miners emigrated in the 19th century,to run their mining industry,where they have Cornish pasty competitions every year!

Pat .... Thats a joke right ? Ain't it ?

[Pat Harley]

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No,it's been on TV,and in the papers more than once!Don't know if it's Argentina or Chile,but down there somewhere,they have all kinds of exotic fillings at the competition,like chilli etc,not just traditional Cornish,but pasties all the same.It was at the time when Cornwall was at the top of mining engineering,with all their steam pumps and so on,and they were asked to go out and set up mines for them over there,and of course some stayed on,and introduced the pasty to South America!

[trubrit2411]

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Good job hardly any Jocks went. They would have inflicted haggis on them Argies. Plus interbred and turned them into heathens....much like them killer bees. You might have been up against that in the FI Pat.

LOL Lunatic Argies doing bayonet charges in Kilts

[Pat Harley]

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I love a good haggis,and don't see it as an infliction!

[trubrit2411]

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Pat...you are on yer own mate.... a braver man than me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis