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Your View: Remember Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco
South Coast Today ^ | 3-14-12 | JORGE S. MEDEIROS

Posted on 03/14/2012 6:04:30 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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General Washington loved this guy.
1 posted on 03/14/2012 6:04:34 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; mainepatsfan; timpad; ...

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

2 posted on 03/14/2012 6:09:27 AM PDT by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt...)
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General Washington loved this guy.

And well he should have! Bernard Cornwell should start a series on his military career. An American Sharpe!

3 posted on 03/14/2012 6:20:34 AM PDT by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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General Washington loved this guy.

And well he should have! Bernard Cornwell should start a series on his military career. An American Sharpe!

4 posted on 03/14/2012 6:21:24 AM PDT by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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Only real!


5 posted on 03/14/2012 7:31:10 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Thanks for posting, as usual. What an amazing biography of Mr. Francisco. His exploits are almost unbelievable. How can a man get seriously wounded so many times and not have infection take his life? He was truly blessed.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 7:34:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Great story!


7 posted on 03/14/2012 7:35:08 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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Kidnapped in the Azores in 1760 by raiding jihadist pirates. Lucky he wasn’t killed.


8 posted on 03/14/2012 7:44:07 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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bttt


9 posted on 03/14/2012 7:55:10 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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His great-great-great grandson Sam was a cop on a TV show

Sam Francisco

10 posted on 03/14/2012 8:13:55 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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Thanks Pharmboy.

An Increbible story about an Increbible hero. And it could only happen in an Increbible Country like America.


11 posted on 03/14/2012 8:31:42 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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Thank you so much for posting this....I am going to buy it for my nephew’s 18th birthday. This kid is a lost soul, and needs to go into the military...says he loves history, also....so MAYBE this will get him there, or help him find something outside of himself to live for.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 9:15:20 AM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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How come Hollywood has not made a movie about this guy? No exaggeration would be needed to make this story jump off the screen...from his kidnapping by pirates to his 6 foot sword...wow!
13 posted on 03/14/2012 9:39:25 AM PDT by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt...)
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This is a really great story. I wish some film would be made about him. Could be a nice swashbuckler!

Exciting to hear about someone actually researching the man from his native lands. All this time it’s been touted as a mystery. Apparently no-one bothered to check foreign archives.


14 posted on 03/14/2012 10:09:47 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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That’s a GREAT idea.

I wish they would.


15 posted on 03/14/2012 10:51:47 AM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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Rush knows people in the film biz...I will send it to him.


16 posted on 03/14/2012 10:53:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt...)
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That sounds great Pharmboy!!


17 posted on 03/14/2012 1:37:00 PM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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That sounds great Pharmboy!!


18 posted on 03/14/2012 1:37:04 PM PDT by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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Dear professor, here’s a film idea at post 13. Absolutely!


19 posted on 03/14/2012 2:13:58 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
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I would appreciate being added to The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list.

I love founders era history.


20 posted on 03/14/2012 2:49:47 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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