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How about that! Wow.

Maybe you could ping whatever “ping list” you have to come on over and read this too.

Glad it was a meaningful “ping” for you!

It is an awesome event in our history.

God is merciful and really does not want anyone to be destroyed if it can possibly be avoided.

I remember the times in the Revolution where God intervened - such as the mysterious fog that came up when Washington was trying to escape from the British in New York City after his troops were primed and ready to be destroyed by the Brits and basically the Revolution ended right there.

for some reason the Brits held off on their final assault on Washington and his troops, giving him that night during which he and his troops could escape with that miraculous use of all the boats and the men to pilot the boats (like at Dunkirk). Washington got all his men, animals, canon on board those ships without the British hearing them - and then this “mysterious” fog came up that hid their movements across the river so the British could not see them and cut them down from the river banks!

The fog lasted just long enough for the Great Escape to be accomplished!

That was GOD’s certain miraculous intervention during the Revolution just as this later miracle in the War of 1812 - this storm - was God’s miraculous intervention again.

God can and does use ANYTHING He needs to use in order to accomplish His purposes - and in order to respond to the humble prayers of those who call upon His Name! Hallelujah!

Though most know it:

[A Yankee officer was in a disastrous battle in the French and Indian War]

There were 86 British and American officers involved in that battle; at the end of the battle, [he] was the only officer who had not been shot down off his horse — he was the only officer left on horseback.

The next day, [he] wrote a letter to his family explaining that after the battle was over, he had taken off his jacket and had found four bullet holes through it, yet not a single bullet had touched him; several horses had been shot from under him, but he had not been harmed. He told them:

“By the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation.”

[George Washington]

Fifteen Years Later:

An old Indian chief from far away, having heard that Washington had come back to those woods, traveled a long way just to meet with him.

He sat down with Washington, and face-to-face over a council fire, the chief told Washington that he had been a leader in that battle fifteen years earlier, and that he had instructed his braves to single out all the officers and shoot them down. Washington had been singled out, and the chief explained that he personally had shot at Washington seventeen different times, but without effect. Believing Washington to be under the care of the Great Spirit, the chief instructed his braves to cease firing at him.

The Bullet Proof President
http://www.garymcleod.org/bullet.htm

Thank you for the ping to this inspirational thread. The Founders are more alive to me than ever. I never tire of hearing the story of how the weather was on the side of General Washington and the Continentals, as well as how bullets and cannonballs could be flying all around him and not hit him.

I believe Washington also called for a day of prayer and fasting at a certain point during the American Revolution.