Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 10:25:49 -0700 From: Old Goat <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net> Subject: Re: African Britain keri/david wrote: > The Romans would often recruit a whole army unit in one part > of the empire, and send it to another part, so this probably means > a whole African unit stationed at Colchester rather than just one > African. There is also evidence of an African unit of the Roman > army being based in the South of Scotland. Roman units could > be based in one place for a very long time, so, as these African > units almost certainly left descendants, that means the "white" > population of England and Scotland (and, by extension, also > the white population of the USA, Australia, etc.) may not > be quite as white as it thinks it is. > > Dave macht nicht, we still be killers by nature -- and omnivores -- and flower sniffers. old ROMAntic goat. the more I become involved in society the less sanguine I am about its value-- or even its reality. ÐÏ à¡± á
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