by AntwerpAtom » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:50 am
It's all quite easy. There was this guy Napoleon, who lost a battle and his empire at Waterloo. Afterwards they had to draw a new map of Europe, so they joined Belgium to Holland, thus forming a bigger kingdom of the Netherlands. But the Belgians did not like the Dutch king and his high taxes, so they kicked him out - with a little help from their friends. The same thing that Texas did with the Mexicans, if I'm not wrong...
It's all quite easy. There was this guy Napoleon, who lost a battle and his empire at Waterloo. Afterwards they had to draw a new map of Europe, so they joined Belgium to Holland, thus forming a bigger kingdom of the Netherlands. But the Belgians did not like the Dutch king and his high taxes, so they kicked him out - with a little help from their friends. The same thing that Texas did with the Mexicans, if I'm not wrong...