Morgan needs several things, including a new first name. When I think of piers, I think of wet things in the water that stink of dead fish.
More seriously. Ben Shapiro of Breitbart did a good job of counterattacking Morgan’s “cookie-cutter questions” but he missed a chance to really stick it to him and show the viewing audience how stupid Morgan really is.
Let’s go back to 1775 and 1776. What were the British troops going after when they clashed with colonialists (Americans-in-the-making)?
Easy: The colonial gun/weapons/supplies stores at Bunker Hill, Boston, and at other sites scattered around the state. Lexington and Concord battles were fought to keep the British from marching on these stores.
Lesson learned by American students but not by Piers Morgan:
After all the fighting during the Revolutionary War, when the smoke had finally settled, the British occupation army, the finest in Europe, had lost to a basically ragtag army of Minutemen, men and women who had saved their own arms from confiscation by tyrannts, and were able to successfully use them to push the tyrannts back and thus gain freedom for themselves and future generations.
Hey Morgan, you fop. You lost.
And as if to rub salt into the wound, it was a makeshift, ragtag American Army at the Battle of New Orleans that destroyed a British army that outnumbered them about 10 to 1.
Pirates, free Frenchmen, gamblers, some professional US soldiers and sailors, Indians, Tennesee sharpshooters, and others showed that their collective privately owned arms could meet and beat the best that the British had.
Hey Morgan, you twit. You lost again.
Now go back home to muzzielnd and see how long you will last in the streets of Englandistan without a gun.
Also learn the words to a good rock and roll song by Ral Donner, “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until You’ve Lost It.”
Not pursuing early advantage in late December
And underestimating American resolve and mettle...a mettle enforced by cavalry with sabers drawn in the rear behind the subsequent ramparts
Jackson was indefatigable and the Brits sloppy and dreaming of pillage and booty
That battle and it's site is a hobby of mine...i love reading about it
That one and Franklin were i live are my two centers of study on battles domestically
Now you can tell mr know it all to sod off..lol
I hate to water down the drama, but without the French navy we never would’ve won. Also, many on our side were trained by the British army, and professionals from various European countries —France (Lafayette), Poland (Pulaski), Prussia (von Steuben)—helped. So it wasn’t exactly a ragtag bunch of bumpkins beating bloated imperial regulars.
Not to say that motley American crews didn’t do anything decisive on their own. Washington’s chief virtue was that he avoided disaster, but we did score manor victories in set-piece battles like the Cowpens and Saratoga, which is something you can’t say for overhyped ragtag armies like the commies in Vietnam.
P.S. We may have won at New Orleans, but by any objective standard we lost the war. Technically New Orleans wasn’t even part of the war.
“Tennesee sharpshooters”
One of my ancestors was a young Lt in the Tenn Militia with Tennesee and Kentucky sharpshooters. Apparently under a brief flag of truce, he had a discussion with a Brit Officer, who probably was an ancestor to Morgan. The Redcoat ancestor complained about my ancestor’s sharpshooters, and how unprofessional he and they were.
Lore has it, this young rag tag sharpshooter and sharpshooter leader told the Brit, pr***, that the Brit and his men should stay in where they were and continue to drink and whore around. Because if they came out to fight, they would be slaughtered. He apparently told the Brit Office, he would be a target if he dared to show himself on a field of battle.
Morgan’s possible ancestor took my young ancestor’s advice and he and his men never came out to get killed.
Brits like Morgan, know that our ancestors had their guns for protection from Crazy King George and his whore loving soldiers in America.
That is why they hate us owning guns. If our ancestors had not owned guns, we would still be under British rule.
Re: The American Revolution, 1776 — we did it before and we can do it again! (Borrowing a theme from an old WW2 song.)