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Well done! Merry Christmas!
A beautiful post!
I miss America so much. It's too bad we let it get away from us.
Great Job!
Merry Christmas, Pharmboy, to you and yours. Thank You.
Grateful thanks for posting this!
We all should reflect on and ponder the sacrifices that were made by these good men to leave us so much we now take for granted — and which is now being allowed to slip away by an inattentive citizenry!
WASHINGTON LOVED HIS PUPPY SWEET LIPSIn February we celebrate the birth of the father of our country, George Washigton. Did you know that the first president deeply loved dogs?
During the American Revolution soldiers brought their hunting dogs to battle, including Washington who brought along a young foxhound he had bred, which he named Sweet Lips.
Washington so loved animals that he halted the war at one point on behalf of a dog.
At the Battle of Germantown in 1777, British Gen. William Howe's terrier was captured by the Continental Army. Washinton took care of the dog and eventually sought a truce to send the dog safely back to Gen. Howe.
I'm quite sure the General would approve.
I grew up near Mt. Vernon and knew it well.
If only all Americans could have access to this history, they would understand how blessed America was and still is.
A wonderful post, Pharmboy. Merry Christmas to you and all on the forum!
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A good time of the year to remember the men who endured so much hardship, and especially that one indispensable American, who allowed us to have so much freedom.
God blessed us with George Washington.
Thank you!
Well done. Thank you.
I have had the honor of standing in that very room in Annapolis where Gen. Washington resigned his commission. Wonderful.
thanks for the work!!
and the ping!
A wonderful Christmas to both of you!
Well done.
Thanks for this - fascinating! Living in New York, I have been able to visit Fraunces Tavern periodically over the years - it contains a restaurant and museum operated by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York. If you are in New York City it is well worth a visit - their web site is at http://frauncestavernmuseum.org/about/
Merry Christmas to you Pharmboy, and to all of our fellow FReepers!
Many have forgotten that there was a two year period between Cornwallis' surrender and the British evacuation of New York. Congress neglected to pay the Army which nearly revolted. Washington deftly put down the Newburgh Conspiracy in March 1783 with his Newburgh address:
...While I give you these assurances, and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner, to exert whatever ability I am possessed of in your favour, let me entreat you, gentlemen, on your part, not to take any measures, which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity, and sully the glory you have hitherto maintained. Let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress; that, previous to your dissolution as an army, they will cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated, as directed in their resolutions which were published to you two days ago; and that they will adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render ample justice to you for your faithful and meritorious services. And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country; and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
By thus determining, and thus acting, you will pursue the plain and direct road to the attainment of your wishes; you will defeat the insidious designs of our enemies, who are compelled to resort from open force to secret artifice. You will give one more distinguished proof of unexampled patriotism and patient virtue, rising superior to the pressure of the most complicated sufferings: and you will, by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind—"had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining."