Posted on 12/19/2009 3:18:21 PM PST by BGHater
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Conservatives and other NORMAL people need to have a revolution against Obama.
More than enough has happened.
He is worse than being under the crown.
After the global warming science I am doubtful about the Smithsonian.
Ping for later reading....
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The piece begins to fall apart somewhat at this point. Many of the colonists were experienced military campaigners. One of the gievances the colonies had was the aftermath of the French and Indian war. Decent piece over all though
Yes, that is a odd statement. Living during those times, was already dangerous.
Bump for a later read, thanks!
pinging myself to read later...great info, thanks BGHater
My elderly mother-in-law gets the Smithsonian magazine. Climate change Kool-aide drinkers and soft Lefties is all they are. National Geographic is the same too only a little more strident. Its rather off-putting when all you want to do is read something about archeology or science without having to deal with a Left-leaning political basis.
The story of one fighting unit effectively debunks both of them: the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen. Not only were they an effective fighting force (as evidenced by their victories at Ticonderoga and Crown Point), but they also -- paradoxically -- had very little sense of "patriotism" in terms of American nationalism.
In fact, it's not well known that only 18 months after the victories at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, George Washington was under pressure from the Continental Congress to send a military force up to Vermont to subdue the Vermont militia.
Now, this is really poor history. Paine wrote these words because he blamed Washington for letting him rot in the Bastille during the French revolution. In truth, Washington is greatly under rated, today, as a military commander.
On the other hand, and although I thought it a decent piece (good enough to copy) I don't see the "myths" part unless the author uses K - 7 lesson plans as his baseline; most people know at least a fair summary of what is in the article even though they can't recite the battles by date and outcome.
And note that one thing Washington never did was claim to be a great, or fairly good, general.
The campaign that unfolded in the South during 1780 and 1781 was the final turning point of the conflict. After failing to crush the rebellion in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, the British turned their attention in 1778 to the South, hoping to retake Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. At first the Southern Strategy, as the British termed the initiative, achieved spectacular results. Within 20 months, the redcoats had wiped out three American armies, retaken Savannah and Charleston, occupied a substantial portion of the South Carolina backcountry, and killed, wounded or captured 7,000 American soldiers, nearly equaling the British losses at Saratoga. Lord George Germain, Britain’s American Secretary after 1775, declared that the Southern victories augured a “speedy and happy termination of the American war.”But the colonists were not broken. In mid-1780, organized partisan bands, composed largely of guerrilla fighters, struck from within South Carolina’s swamps and tangled forests to ambush redcoat supply trains and patrols. By summer’s end, the British high command acknowledged that South Carolina, a colony they had recently declared pacified, was “in an absolute state of rebellion.” Worse was yet to come. In October 1780, rebel militia and backcountry volunteers destroyed an army of more than 1,000 Loyalists at Kings Mountain in North Carolina. After that rout, Cornwallis found it nearly impossible to persuade Loyalists to join the cause.
In January 1781, Cornwallis marched an army of more than 4,000 men to North Carolina, hoping to cut supply routes that sustained partisans farther south. In battles at Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse and in an exhausting pursuit of the Army under Gen. Nathanael Greene, Cornwallis lost some 1,700 men, nearly 40 percent of the troops under his command at the outset of the North Carolina campaign.
I found Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution to be most illuminating about the Revolutionary War, which always seemed to be a muddle with very little coherent narrative to it. This book explains why that would be so: in fact, over long stretches it was predominantly a stalemate with Washington defending New Jersey and the British holding New York - and neither side willing to make a decisive move.This article gives the same overview that you get from the book: the Southern Strategy of the British appeared to be rolling up the colonies from south to north - and Washington basically threw a Hail Mary pass by sending Nathaniel Green south with nothing much but a charter to do what he could. Greene was a logistical genius who was able to gain control of supplies and transportation such as boats. And Greene was clear that he would not allow the British (Cornwallis) to engage him in a decisive battle. Cornwallis decided to lighten his supply train to be able to pursue Greene rapidly; when Greene heard the report that Cornwallis had burned his supply wagons Greene responded, "Then he is ours!" And made it stick - whenever Greene reached a river, the boats were there to get his army across; when Cornwallis arrived at the river the boats were nowhere to be found. Cornwallis was exhausted, and went to Yorktown, where he awaited resupply by sea - and where the British found a French blockade in place. The French had to persuade Washington to quit New Jersey and march down to Yorktown to beseige Cornwallis . . .
Cute factoid: Nathaniel Greene only ever held two ranks in the military: Private and General.
‘Washington never did was claim to be a great, or fairly good, general.’
Which is another reason why I hold him in such high regard.
It’s mostly a list of strawmen. A time honored technique for ginning out an article - particularly one that allows some to feel superior to the alleged hoi poloi...
Dear mountainlion:
I’m with YOU, Bro!
In the space of a few minutes we have had a report that The Blessed Virgin Mary was NOT actually a virgin. And here’s THIS “report” casting aspersions upon the integrity of our Early American History!
To MY mind, it’s just a backdoor attempt to rewrite history, all in the name of ACCURACY, don’t you know?!
Piffle, Balderdash and Hogwash on all these quibblers AND their johnny-come-lately “scholarly” corrections!
I’m quite sure Washington would have never rated himself a strong B+.....
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