Overseas colonialism hadn't started yet during Henry II, and Henry I oversaw the abolition of slavery in England. Henry II was also responsible for the English breaking from the Catholic church, which is normally the kind of thing that gets progressives wet.
I don't imagine they're thinking about this any further than a desire to decolonise England ... which, given that it's not been colonised since about 1066, seems to merely be a code phrase for removing those horrible English from the place.
Let me guess, they think that lions weren't native to England.
Overseas colonialism hadn't started yet during Henry II, and Henry I oversaw the abolition of slavery in England. Henry II was also responsible for the English breaking from the Catholic church, which is normally the kind of thing that gets progressives wet.
I don't imagine they're thinking about this any further than a desire to decolonise England ... which, given that it's not been colonised since about 1066, seems to merely be a code phrase for removing those horrible English from the place.
Wrong Henry.
Which Henry are they angry about? I'll readily admit that bong history easily confuses me, so many Henrys and Eds.
Henry II: 5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189
Colonialism
Pick one.
Are you saying there were lions native to England at one point? I feel like I've heard that before but it might have been some fever dream.
Yes, the European Lion was rather common all across the continent until the Roman era. Those were European lions in the gladiator games.
Yes, it looked just like the African race of Lion, just like the Asiatic Lion does.