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From: "Richard Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] ENGLISH U-152/S28 - THE REAL STORY and the Rarity Myth
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:53:59 -0400
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I doubt there is any evidence that U152 is better represented among the
descendants of English immigrants to the various British colonies than it is
in modern England itself. It also seems unlikely to me that U152 was somehow
selectively wiped out in Britain's imperial conflicts at a greater rate than
other British y haplogroups.

I think it is pretty well known that British Army and Navy were full of
recruits from the "Celtic Fringe" countries, as well as from SE England. For
example, at the Battle of Waterloo, Irish soldiers made up 20 to 40 percent
of the infantry battalions (p. 22, The Battle of Waterloo, Alessandro
Barbero).

Rich



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