[Sca-cooks] Civil War (was Japanese (was: What did they..))

[Jane Williams]

Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote :

> ...English Civil War (why does a country whose history
> includes so many Civil Wars have only one they call that?)

You know, that's a good question, and not one I remember being answered in school history lessons.

It's the only one I know of where there was only one person who *anyone* thought was the rightful king. Could that be something to do with it?

(Why is any war called "civil", anyway? They're usually most un-civil: positively rude, in fact.)