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Thansk 2ndDivisionVet. Good for a chuckle, at the very least. :')
That so few schoolchildren today learn the details of those tumultuous years - the American opposition to colonial taxation, the great British victory at Yorktown and the death of the rebel leader General Washington - is a national disgrace. Had the transatlantic empire broken up, Britain would surely have been condemned to obscurity, even if it is hard to imagine the American states remaining united for long. Yorktown should be remembered as one of our pivotal victories, ushering in two centuries of international dominance.
What if Monty had been killed June 7, 1944 and the Germans defeated six months to a year earlier than turned out to be? Would the US have wound up inflicting such terrible defeats on Japan that the nukes would not have proved necessary? :') Who cares, at least Monty would have been dead in 1944.

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12 posted on 06/24/2010 5:17:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well, if we lost at Yorktown, General Washington would have been brought to London, tried and hanged (along with many others, such as Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, et. al.).

I believe Franklin would have escaped the noose...he was altogether far too charming. More than this, I cannot surmise...

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P____y

14 posted on 06/24/2010 6:13:28 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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