Re: [eia] Worried of Cardiff

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 12:46 PM 4/27/2006, you wrote:
>As someone who lives 10 miles from Cardiff (and indeed lived  there until
>1999) I keep looking out of the windows to see if the French  hordes are
>pillaging in South Wales...
>
>As a historical note, Cardiff was barely bigger than a fishing village in
>1805, however it grew massively when the railroads started bringing coal 
>from
>the valleys down to the port and it became a city in 1905, the capital of 
>Wales
>  in 1955, and now has about 300,000 people.
>
>Mark
>
>Born in England, inhabitant of the prinicipality of  Wales

Fortunately, Marshal Davout was a strict disciplinarian who enforced no 
looting policies upon his troops by shooting any looters.

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