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Posted on 07/22/2007 8:09:15 PM PDT by Pharmboy
However, I would like to soften the critcism a bit (although what he says is basically true, IMO). The battles that have always gotten the most ink were those that General Washington was present for, and he stayed in the north until Yorktown.
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The South was where the British Army met it’s (pardon the pun) Waterloo.Ironically the American southern troops were led by a Yankee name Nathanael Greene and greatly aided by New Jersey General Daniel Morgan. Washington was stalemated by British General Henry Clinton in New York so it took the southern theater to turn the Revolution in the American favor and TURN IT IN OUR FAVOR IT DID !!!
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Partisans & Redcoats by Walter Edgar tells this story well.
True enough...and although Daniel Morgan was born in NJ, he left at the age of sixteen and adopted Virginia as his home. He’s buried in Winchester (and believe me, as a Garden Stater, I would love to claim him). Greene was a Rhode Islander...and a lapsed Quaker to boot!
I had always heard of Morgan as a Virginian commanding Virginians, but I see now that he moved to the Valley of Virginia when he was a teenager.
“he left at the age of sixteen and adopted Virginia as his home’
Interesting,I didn’t know that. That’s why I come to FR to learn stuff !!!
The War Between the States has been almost a paragon of history being written by the victor, though that has slowly been changing.
George wasn’t in the 1st set of battles - Lexington/Concord, and “Bunker Hill”.
They get LOTS of ink. More than any George battle. Perhaps because they’re the 1st.
Hey Pharm,
From where is that layout of King’s Mountain? I don’t think I’ve seen a print like that. I don’t think it’s Carrington’s, because he seemed to use pretty standard direct overhead views (2D) with boxes for units.
“I can go back to my classroom this fall with a much stronger sense of how close we came to losing the war, if not for the victories down here — far away from New England.”
Wow, that sort of proves my “bigotted” point about New England from last week.
She mentions New England. Yet only the very 1st battles and the siege of Boston, and later Newport, really happened up there. (Burlington is debatable, since noone could agree if it was VT or NY - but it certainly wasn’t mainstream NE at the time.) Until Arnold’s invasion of his old neighbors after Yorktown. Otherwise, a few skirmishes.
Most of the “George” battles were New York and below. Yet even this woman had to mention it as if it was all about New England.
“Washington was stalemated by British General Henry Clinton in New York”
Sounds like the wrong spin. Yes, they were both in stalemate, but Clinton was the 1 who was surrounded.
"Rogues Island" was pretty much where "lapsed" anything gravitated to, a key reason why puritans in the bordering states ordered trespassers from said colony to be shot on sight, lest they disturb the "moral order."
I didn't vote for our Junior Senator but I recommend his book.
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