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back to the original question - saw him last year up in Scotland. Friendly chap.

Someone's hoping to snare one of his relatives.

Sense of humour on here ... thats a wookie mistake

I agree that Britain did not quite "stand alone" after the defeat in France. Members of the Commonwealth had made their own independent declarations of war on Germany. India as part of the Empire declared war in 1939. Nepal for example was at war and was not a member of the Commonwealth. Thousands of Irish moved to Britain to fight. Even though France, Poland and Czechoslovakia were defeated, thousands of their soldiers, including those evacuated from Dunkirk fought with the along side the British and as members of the RAF. De Gaulle was leading the Free French forces. However, Britain was the only country in Europe that was at war with Germany and had not surrendered. In that sense, she was proudly standing alone.

We stood alone militarily, although the help we got from the USA pre 1941, was considerable, despite a still strong isolationist leaning in the States............But,. I'm reminded of the words of Roosevelt's representative Harry Hopkins on a visit to the UK to see Churchill in January 1941:-

Often you will find diferences to Copper pennies of most years were letters / colons were re cut and repunched to continue using the same dies. Both your coins are OT Far colon after DEF, The re punched different position of colons IMO does not really mean any major variety and if it did there would be lots of different types. The main varieties for 1855 are...... OT Far colon PT Close colon OT Three colons after FID One with a DOT on Victorias Forehead.....A variety for some but only a flaw You really could go on forever Paddy ,so you can make your own judgement as to what is a variety or not 😉

Britain did not "stand alone" prior to the USA entering WW2. We provided military hardware and supplies to Great Britain well over a year prior to the U.S. entering the war...just a FYI! During World War II, the United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940, even though the United States did not enter the war until December 1941. Much of this aid flowed to the United Kingdom and other nations already at war with Germany and Japan through an innovative program known as Lend-Lease. ☺️ btw....Great Britain was one of the few countries that paid us back for the aid. The lend-lease program ended up being a "gratis" program with most countries.

Indeed - it was a multi party effort. It's true that we did stand alone up until the Soviet Union and USA joined the war in June and December 1941 respectively. But we certainly couldn't have beaten Germany alone. We only won the Battle of Britain because they changed tack and started bombing cities instead of airfields. We did contribute a hell of a lot though, that cannot be denied. Especially in terms of intelligence from Bletchley Park, night bombing of German cities and in North Africa. Equally it should never be forgotten that Stalin connived with Hitler in 1939, to carve up Poland. Sorry, World War 2 is one of my big historical interests. I'll shut up now. What's a "Britian" when it's at home?

"I know little about ..." usually translates to FAKE, FAKE, FAKE

Maybe , but non-Americans wouldn't have a CLUE about that, so I echo Michael's remark about "not fair".

I saw one the other day in in an 1806 penny ...but then again I am mad as a hatter

What an abominable post, you've definitely put your Big Foot in it 😋