Beer’s place in history: In King Henry VIII’s time, in 1542, when the English were planning to invade Scotland, it was considered of great importance that the army should not run out of beer. Orders were issued for the army to ready the march to Scotland on 2nd October. The ships coming from London with the beer did not arrive in time and the march was delayed until the 7th October. When the beer had still not arrived, the march was put off again until 11th October! When it did arrive it was considered too little and the commander, the Duke of Norfolk wrote to Henry that there was only enough beer for a 6 day campaign, even if he rationed the beer to two pots of beer a day. The army was led into Scotland on 12th October but the soldiers seemed to drink more than the ration and it was recalculated that the beer would only last for four days. There was very little resistance from the scots, but the English army withdrew after four days. The Scots, not realising the reason for the withdrawal, invaded England and were led into the bog at Solway Moss where they suffered one of the largest defeats in British history. All caused by a severe lack of beer!! What can we say?
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:49:48 +0000
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