RedKite wrote:Sage,
When I say "more troops", I mean PER CAPITA , of course.
But , anyway, the Britain and England are not the same thing, because "England" is only half the land area of the UK.
[Similarly, "Holland" is only 2 provinces of "Netherlands"....the correct name for that country.]
Welsh is the German word for the British, because the English did not arrive in Britain from North Germany until AFTER the Romans left.
The English....Germanic invaders...called the British WEALAS [ hence Wales] ...meaning "Romanised foreigners", hence Walton [ Weal Tun....town of the Welsh] ; Wallasey ...Wealas Ey...Island of the Welsh and Corn Wall...Welsh of the corn or peninsula.
The Welsh...or Brythonic speaking Britons , lived in England and Southern Scotland for over a 1000 years before the English arrived . The proof is in the Welsh place-names of England and Scotland, eg Dover , Malvern, Avon, Morecambe, Perth, Glasgow, Lanark etc.
I don't know anyone that still uses the term Holland when talking about the Netherlands, maybe some people in the UK do?
By the way, the old BENELUX trading bloc was comprised of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These three countries comprise the 'Low Countries' (or 'Les Pays Bas').
Certainly by around 500 AD the British Celts (Wealh) in general had lost all of the civilisation that the Romans had brought to Britain (outside of the continued existence of Celtic British Latin speakers and writers inside some monasteries), and had reverted to living in wooden enclosures outside of the Roman ruins which they had no knowledge how to repair or use, and which they came to believe as inhabited by bad spirits and avoided. Nevertheless they liked to consider themselves more civilised that the English invaders (and they were, to a degree), and noble descendants of the Romans (which is a bit of a laugh).