Posted on 10/29/2013 4:07:34 PM PDT by VermiciousKnid
These stunning images are early photographs of some of the men who bravely fought for their country in the Revolutionary War some 237 years ago.
Images of Americans who fought in the Revolution are exceptionally rare because few of the Patriots of 1775-1783 lived until the dawn of practical photography in the early 1840s.
These early photographs – known as daguerreotypes – are exceptionally rare camera-original, fully-identified photographs of veterans of the War for Independence – the war that established the United States.
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My pleasure, virgil. I’m glad I stumbled across the article.
Regards,
Ping!
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great post ... just trying to make a funny. ;-)
-PJ
Wait, this is a British paper? What side of the Revolutionary War were these Veterans on?
Those men would be sickened to see us today. They’d take us to the woodshed for letting it all get out of hand.
Oh, I know that, doc! Glad you enjoyed the post!
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I can’t even imagine what they’d think, Pete.
Regards,
Thanks for the great post, VermiciousKnid.
My pleasure, laplata!
Regards,
I had some ancestors who lived that long (104 and 105), and my mother is still living at 100 right now. However, there were many more who died much younger, including my father who left us at age 56.
A bunch of old dead white guys!
Who created a nation so spectacular and blessed that people from all over the globe, of all color and faith, try to get here!!
But, you never hear the libs whiners say that, do you!
There were some who lived long back then, I think Daniel Boone lived into his 80s.
Some people live to over 100 today with no medical procedures, fancy diets or drugs.
Human genetics haven’t changed much over the last few hundred years so I suspect the percentage of such people hasn’t changed either.
Yes, they would be appalled that we have dishonored their heroism and sacrifice by throwing away our freedom and liberty for tyranny.
I think I have an idea.
I agree that Washington is amazing and remarkable and our greatest president. However, as to the story, I do not want to propogate things that are not true, and the story may be suspect. Washington is great without it.
That story seems mainly a copy-paste from Wikipedia.com.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_jockey
They are liberal, of course, though not all entries are. The last part of that article debunks itself somewhat!
“Neither the Revolutionary War nor the Civil War legends are corroborated by historical records. Mount Vernon’s librarian Ellen McCallister Clark wrote in a letter to Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library: “No record of anybody by the name of Jocko Graves, nor any account of somebody freezing to death holding Washington’s horses, exists in the extensive historical record of the time.” Nor do any of the many historical inventories and descriptions of Washington’s estate mention any such statue. Moreover, stories about the Underground Railroad using lawn jockeys as signals are rendered suspect by the fact that red and green as signal colors meaning “stop” and “go” (or “danger” and “safe”) were standardized by railway signals during the World War I era.”
I had a great uncle who was born in about 1878 - i knew him when I was a child in the 70's - he died in about 1977. I thought he was as old as the hills - had no teeth either, and looked just like the men in these photos.
As a side note, this uncle always would tell me about a man in the town where he grew up, who, as a very young boy, had met George Washington. It amazed me - only 2 degrees of separation between me and George Washington!
We get some pretty cool stuff...from the Brits. Sadly.
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