(05-05-2019, 09:50 AM)hazard Wrote: That's mostly a British Commonwealth thing, and I think it's a result of the WW1 poem 'In Flanders' Fields'. The Netherlands didn't fight in that war, and mostly observed the conflict from the sidelines with horror.
While happily selling both sides whatever they wanted to buy and we believed we could get away with mind you. We did start as a merchant republic who, among other things, sold the Spaniards we were rebelling against low quality cannon to buy better guns for our own army.
hey, as the saying goes, "Buyer beware"
