If Guy Fawkes had succeeded…
Four hundred years ago the gunpowder plotters hoped to change the world by blowing up Parliament and killing the king. Had they succeeded, what effect would this have had –
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Four hundred years ago the gunpowder plotters hoped to change the world by blowing up Parliament and killing the king. Had they succeeded, what effect would this have had –
Pat Geoghegan
If Fawkes had succeeded, (wished he had) then both Spain and France would’ve been convinced to invade and re-Catholicize England. British Protestants would’ve been thirsty for blood, and would undoubtedly quench that thirst with the blood of papists. Spain and France would come to the aid of the persecuted Catholics and subdue the savage Protestants. Fawkes would’ve lead England back to Rome, or least tried. Whether he’d best Protestant resistance to re-assimilation is up for debate, but the United Kingdom would certainly be a different today.