I am A Englishman and proud to shout out I am English! Being an Englishman, has nothing to do with colour but about English values. What are English values you may ask! Stiff upper lip! Carry on reguardless attitude, tolerant ( some may say too!) steadfast, Gutsie, these are just some of the values Englishmen have!
If you were born in England then you are English, regardsless of colour! Simple!
If A scotsman/welshman/irishman shouts out he is proud he gets a pat on the back and a good on you mate!
If A Englishman shouts he is proud to be English he is labeled a racist! Why!
Why is it we only show that we are English during sporting events Football Etc, when we should show it all the time. Englands national flag should be flown at all English Schools.
This site is all about promoting England, English National events, issue's effecting England and anything else thats promotes England!
How many of you reading this can tell me when St Georges day is! What is the national flower of England!
April 23 St Georges day:
But who was St. George, and what did he do to become England’s Patron Saint? Very little is known about St. George’s life, but it is thought he was a high ranking officer in the Roman army who was killed in around AD 303. It seems that the Emperor Diocletian had St. George tortured to make him deny his faith in Christ. However despite some of the most terrible torture even for that time, St George showed incredible courage and faith and was finally beheaded near Lydda in Palestine. His head was later taken to Rome where it was interred in the church dedicated to him. Stories of his strength and courage soon spread throughout Europe. The best-known story about St. George is his fight with a dragon, but it is highly unlikely that he ever fought a dragon, and even more unlikely that he ever visited England, however his name was known there as early as the eighth-century. In the Middle Ages the dragon was commonly used to represent the Devil. Unfortunately the many legends connected with St. George’s name are fictitious, and the slaying of the ‘Dragon’ was first credited to him in the twelfth-century. St. George, so the story goes, killed a dragon on the flat topped Dragon Hill in Uffington, Berkshire, and it is said that no grass grows where the dragon’s blood trickled down! It was probably the 12th century Crusaders however who first invoked his name as an aid in battle. King Edward III made him the Patron Saint of England when he formed the Order of the Garter in St. George's name in 1350, and the cult of the Saint was further advanced by King Henry V, at the battle of Agincourt in northern France. Shakespeare made sure that nobody would forget St. George, and has King Henry V finishing his pre-battle speech with the famous phrase, ‘Cry God for Harry, England and St. George!’ King Henry himself, who was both warlike and devout, was thought by his followers to possess many of the saint’s characteristics. St. George’s Day is still celebrated, and his flag flown, on his feast day, April 23rd all over England.
Rose: The rose was adopted as England's emblem around the time of the War of the Roses - civil wars (1455-1485) between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose) and the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose). King Richard III and the Yorkists were defeated at Bosworth on 22 August 1485 by the future Henry VII. The two roses were combined to make the Tudor rose (a red rose with a white centre) by Henry VII when he married Elizabeth of York.
There you are a little History lesson of some of the things that make England, England!
Any Man Should be Proud of his Place of Birth, and should be able to hold his head up high and shout out, I am English I am Proud.
Remember: To be English is to be Great!
Roger
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