Posted on 06/20/2016 6:12:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html
The above is an interesting link. During the Revolutionary War, privateers (private fighting ships) had almost 15,000 cannon compared to the Continental forces 1,250. The first sea battle was two privateers against a British ship. (We won!)
“About 55,000 American seamen served aboard the privateers. When captured by the British Navy, they were given a choice: join the British Navy or prison. The conditions of captivity aboard the prison ships, mostly abandoned ships moored in New York harbor, were inhuman. The most infamous of these was the HMS Jersey. About 11,000 privateers died of disease and malnutrition, their bodies dumped onto the mud flats of Wallabout Bay, where Brooklyn Navy Yard now stands.”
From my earlier link. The God-given natural right to bear arms is not a guarantee of victory. And certainly that victory comes at a great price. A price that we need to honor every day, and to continue the fight against the liberals that would like to take away our freedoms secured at such a high cost.
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Thank you so much! Just the sort of information I was hoping for :)
I gave my kids single shot .45-70's last year (we live in Ohio, only straight walled cartridges and shotgun slugs are legal for deer hunting).
So far, a second shot hasn't been necessary:) (both rifles have killed a deer)
“They’re not buying it to go out and hunt deer. You don’t need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer. They’re buying it do bad things and we need to recognize that and address it.”
What a idiot. I have read the Constitution and the word deer is not found in it anywhere
Canon are not in It, as well.
Actually, senator, what should be banned are stupid frigging politicians like yourself; morons who demand the disarming of American citizens in the face of threats, the attribution of which you deny, while you import more and more of those who would do us harm. Idiots like you would prefer that regular Americans who do not have armed security sit or lie waiting to be executed like those poor souls in Paris, San Bernardino, Orlando and other “gun free” zones created by politicians and “public servants” like you.
Maybe she knows something about the intentions of President Obama, the military, and the police that we don't. After all, governments, federal, state, and local seem to purchase a lot of semi-automatic, and for that matter full automatic weapons.
Presumably, in Sen. Shaheen's world a government employee having a semiautomatic rifle to protect themselves or our nation is a good thing. But a citizen buying a semiautomatic rifle to do the same thing is “buying it do bad things.” That tells you all you need to know about our Democratic senator from New Hampshire.
No kidding, and to think we have to share a state with them!
Sen. Shaheen gets elected by our legions of unionized, liberal school teachers, students and their fellow leftists at colleges and universities in our state, and the assorted liberals from New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere who decided to retire or move here after they wrecked their own states.
None of them realize that one of the major industries in our state is making the very weapons they are against. Both Ruger and Sig Sauer are located here. I'd like Sen. Shaheen to explain her plan to the hard working people at Ruger and Sig Sauer, and their many suppliers.
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” ... , privateers (private fighting ships) had almost 15,000 cannon compared to the Continental forces 1,250. The first sea battle was two privateers against a British ship. (We won!)”
There were no state-owned (government) gun foundries in the original 13 colonies, so all cannon produced in the fledgling United States had to be privately produced. The Continental Congress was endlessly short on cash, and so purchased few guns for any of its forces (gunmakers were reluctant to fork over the goods for an IOU from a new nation that didn’t really exist yet and might not make it).
The comparison between privateers and naval vessels does not tell the whole story.
Privateers were venture-capital efforts by non-government parties (”private” parties - hence the term), to finance and equip and crew vessels that sortied to attack enemy merchant shipping: essentially, piracy made legal. Crews on privateers tried to capture defenseless merchantmen, sail them to a friendly port, and cause a prize court there to condemn the captured vessel, then sell it and its cargo at auction.
Privateers were lightly armed and ran from a fight with a real warship when they could.
Sailors signed on hoping to catch numerous prize vessels and get rich; hence the larger number of privateers, and the seemingly skewed number of guns carried by privateering vessels. Gun size was no bigger than needed to cause a cargo vessel to strike it colors: four- to six-pounder guns were the commonest. Lighter by a giant margin than a man of war, which by the late 18th century mounted guns of nine-pounder caliber or bigger.
John Barry, nicknamed “the fastest man of the 18th century” for record-long-distance on one day, as master of a merchant ship, commanded the first US warship to force an enemy to strike its colors.
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