Posted on 08/23/2013 7:47:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When the 1st Crusade made their great effort for Jerusalem, an order went out for all the men to purify themselves, to pray, fast, and all women were banned from accompanying the army-— Except for the washer women.
Molly Pitcher.
One female in the US revolution lost an arm, and got a pension, serving for a while as ranking officer at West Point to supervise maintenance of the cannon.
Anything is possible.
It’s not like history is normally factually correct anyway.
The camp followers of General Joseph Hooker’s Army helped popularize the term “hookers.”
The excavator who found the tomb claimed it was the tomb of Philip II, and many scholars agree with him, but others think it is more likely the tomb of Philip III Arrhidaeus (the mentally-defective half-brother of Alexander).
Amphipolis was originally an Athenian colony in Thrace, founded in 437 B.C. Thucydides the historian was exiled for not preventing the Spartans from capturing the city. That area was never Macedonian until the reign of Philip II so it doesn't seem like a likely place for a Macedonian king to be buried.
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