Posted on 01/01/2005 6:44:12 AM PST by Pharmboy
My personal favorite from this historic period is Mad Anthony Wayne, who has a county named after him, and who helped the original GW at this time.
To be perfectly fair, the English settlers and their Indian allies treated the French settlers and their Indian allies much the same.
This was a war to see who would dominate North America, the British or the French. It was not a war between absolute good and absolute evil.
The atrocities committed by each side were similar in type and in scope. We hear about those committed by the French and their allies because they were committed against "our" side.
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Perfectly fair my foot.
I collect old history books, and the stories of the INdians and their savagry against the settlers is well documented.
And there are no stories of Englishmen capturing Frenchmen and selling them as slaves in the new world.
The French, America's oldest enemy.
The history of savagery of the French and their Indian allies is indeed well-documented.
As is that of the English and their allies. But much of that documentation is in French and of little interest to most Americans, so it is not surprising that you are unfamiliar with it.
This was a war that went on without really stopping for almost as long as American has been a nation. Horrible deeds were committed by all sides.
The MSM will not stand for this and neither should we. Sure, both Kerry and Arnold were good Americans until both betrayted their country and went over to the other side. It is unfair to subtly raise the comparison and hihlight Kerry's treason every tme Fort Ticonderoga is mentioned.
Yes...exactly right. And, he was FEARLESS in battle. He demonstrated this a number of times: on the Monogahela, at Trenton, Princeton, Manhattan, &etc. At the ill-fated Battle of Manhattan, he had to be physically led away from the charging Hessians (the incident took place around present-day 42nd St and Lexington Ave.--there was an apple orchard there at the time).
Which peters out in the middle of nowhere in Loudoun County (or, at least did until Loudoun County had its massive growth spurt). Take a metal detector and try to find Braddock's payroll! :-D
Thanks...I have always thought that the Deerfield Raid would make a great movie.
Christmas day our family follows a tradition and visits Mount Vernon as we did this year.
Your Obdt. Svt.,
PB
The difficulty with F&I reenacting is that there are so few reenactors at any battle that they can hardly hold more than a modest skirmish. It's not like the Civil War reenactors who can sometimes put 30,000 men and 125 guns in the field.
Not an unreasonable assumption, for the most part.
Allen, banged on the fort's door and cried "Open up in the name of Jehovah!"
We homeschool, and this is covered in the 4th grade curriculum. I frankly admit my shame at discovering just how much I had forgotten about this important part of our history.
We're transitioning to the American Revolution now, and I find I'm re-learning some of that, too.
While speaking of our aborigines, allow me to remind all of our Freepers that during the RevWar the only Algonquin tribe to stand with the patriots were the Oneidas. Please always support them.
You've chosen your screen name well.
Thanks for the ping!
The Brits made New York their base of operations during the F&I war. This brought great prosperity to this growing North American port city. When the war ended and they pulled out in 1763, the city experienced a depression which directly led to events culminating in the American Revolution.
Certainly, Boston was the RevWar city from 1770 on, but from 1765-1770, the Sons of Liberty and Revolutionary activity centered in NYC.
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