Good morning, everyone.
Posted on 05/24/2004 12:06:26 AM PDT by SAMWolf
John Trumbull
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
Commissioned 1817; purchased 1822; placed 1826
[Capitol]Rotunda
The surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the Revolutionary War, for it prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne, and, treating his former foe as a gentleman, invited him into his tent. All of the figures in the scene are portraits of specific officers. Trumbull planned this outdoor scene to contrast with Declaration of Independence beside it.
hI pIPPIN!
Hiya Sam. I was busy all weekend. Oy.
I gave Spiderboy his first high and tight of the summer. He looks very spiffy.
"Like all the rebels, Forrest was a traitor."
If a person doesn't believe as you do then they are branded as a 'traitor' eh? Good thing we don't still burn folks for having differing opinions. One person's 'rebel' is another's 'patriot'.
Good Morning Pippin. You're up early.
Morning E.G.C.
Another cloudy start today.
Morning Aeronaut
Morning Diva Betsy Ross.
Like the poem :-) Thanks for the Whitney Houston version of the National Anthem. Great way to start the morning.
OFF DOESN'T WORK!
LOL! I bet there are a few people here who could have told you that. :-) Other than being eaten alive, how did the trip turn out?
Nathan Bedford Forrest provides an inspiritation to self-taught people who choose to learn his story. My favorite Forrest biography is A Battle from the Start by Brian Steel Wills:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060168323/qid=1085408917/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-7316133-9521741?v=glance&s=books
Wills' treatment of Forrest doesn't lapse into hagiography like some earlier biographies do.
SAMWolf Thank you for this thread.
Brady
Morning stainlessbanner.
I can't think of many men who started as a private and ended up an effective general in the length of one war.
Great line!
Thanks for the link 2banana.
Good morning Mayor. Monday morning and the first cup of coffee. MMMMMMM.
Good Morning WhiskeyPapa.
Morning Waterdragon.
I think I'd believe my parents. :-)
Forrest had a intuitive sense of tactics. He had the charisma to get the best out of his troops. West of the Mississippi there was a lesser known but equally effective calvary officer, General Joseph Orville 'Jo' Shelby. He too suffered from having to be the subordinate of incompetents. At Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge and during Price's retreat after the Battle of Westport and many other actions his 'Iron Brigade' performed magnificently. They never surrendered. At the end of the war he buried his war diaries and sunk his brigade's flags in the Rio Grande and led his men into Mexico where he offered his services in the war with Maximillian. They were refused and they then disbanded and slipped back into the US. Jo Shelby spent the rest of his life in politics and business. He is buried along with over one hundred of his men just two blocks away from where I live in Kansas City under the largest Confederate memorial west of the Mississippi.
HMS Hood, Britain's largest warship and pride of the Royal Navy steams majestically through the Swept Channel on May 22, 1941. Having fuelled at the Scapa Flow naval base in Scotland, she steers clear of floats suspending torpedo and submarine nets, as she heads for open water and the North Sea. The crew of a naval cutter wave farewell as the mighty battleship departs upon what will prove to be her final voyage.
Good Morning, Feather.
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