The Great Battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778 59 heat stroke deaths, NCO Molly Pitcher)

Sacramento Chapter of Sons of Revolution (PDF file) ^ | November 2003

[Libloather]

Great presentation, but I can’t stop thinking of how our war for Independence parallels the war in Iraq, including loosing the support of the people after a few years.

You should tune into the History Channel. Some Brit General named Clinton had four houses and concubines in New York as the British tired of the war. Amazing.

[teeman8r]

but algore says that when we adjust for inflation it was only 64 in 2007 degrees... proof of global warming.

teeman

[Molly Pitcher]

That is so cool! Great photos!

[Ancesthntr]

I grew up about 3-4 miles from the Battle of Monmouth site, in Freehold, NJ. I've read up on the battle quite a bit, and it was quite important because it showed that American troops could take on the Brits in a set-piece battle and prevail. It, along with Saratoga, was instrumental in getting the French to help us out.

My father is very good friends with an old Navy buddy of his named Greene, who is directly descended from Nathaniel Greene.

I find it ironic at best that the freedoms fought and died for at Monmouth Courthouse (as Freehold was then known) and hundreds of other large and small battlefields across NJ and the other 12 original states have been gradually eroded or eliminated. I speak particularly (and most sadly) about the lousy or non-existent state of a person's right to keep and bear arms in New Jersey. New York, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are about as bad. Ironically enough, citizens being asked to muster today to fight a similar tyrant couldn't do so, mainly because the state has corruptly and tyrannically forbidden its citizens to own the most effective firearms, to make it very expensive to do so and to force so many ranges out of previously uninhabited areas that it is very difficult and time-consuming to train with a firearm. I didn't leave NJ (for Texas, Free America) because of a lack of gun rights, but I can say that I was a potential felon for possessing property after 1991 that I possessed quite legally in 1990, as were tens of thousands of others. It frosts me that innocent, tax-paying and otherwise completely law-abiding citizens can be treated so badly by their servant, government...

...which gives me a far greater appreciation of the motivation of those brave people of our first "Greatest Generation" to revolt against tyranny.

[Coleus]

The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General "Mad Anthony" Wayne - Nov. 15th, 2003

Molly Pitcher (Catholic List)

Molly Pitcher Service Area (What Exit?)

[Coleus]

The Declaration of Independence (our controversial religious heritage)

Molly Pitcher (née McCauley), who acquired fame at the Battle of Monmouth, was a Catholic girl.

 

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Coleus.