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 ::::""national victories are not retroactive"". Very good! Try telling that to the people who regularly categorise pre-1707 Englishmen and Scots as ""British"" (sic). William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, John Donne, John Napier etc were never ""British"", yet there they are in the British section of Wikipedia. Of course the very worst offender in that regard is the British Nationalist Broadcasting Corporation, who seem to be hell-bent on pretending that England, Scotland nor Wales exist. We're all the ""Yookay"" now: Hurrah for conformity, homogeneity and blandness!  
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