Posted on 01/03/2024 5:47:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Very cool if it is true... :)
Finally, we’ll know the truth about Peter Pan
I thought that was Captain Hook.
I thought that was Captain Hook.
It was Captain Cook prior to a tragic kitchen mishap.
:)
Why is the Rhode Island-based research group so resistant to the idea?
Does the article happen to say where in
Rhode Island?
Thanks Red Badger.
That's pretty funny, considering how it crossed over in the timing of a post about cooks.
Cook is famous for charting lands previously unknown...
Now there's an explorer who really knew how to cook.
So... how about doing something that really cooks... ♫
(Johnny, be good.)
Now there’s an explorer who really knew how to cook....
But he discovered the Sandwich Islands....AKA, Hawaii...........
“... during the American War of Independence.”
The what?
Disgusting slander from this elitist, Tory pig.
Did we install a king? We just went independent so we kept the same type of government? What an insulting jackass this author is.
It was the American Revolutionary war.
It was a full on revolt against the whole system of hereditary monarchy, patronage and titles. It was replaced with a new and revolutionary representative republic founded on civil liberties and the rights and welfare of “the People” being the government’s purpose.
In the water, I suppose..................
Washington Resigning His Commission, by Edwin White, 1858.
At the end of the Revolutionary War, many people in America and Europe thought Washington would retain the reins of power to become the leader of the new nation, or even king. When told by the American artist Benjamin West that Washington was going to resign, King George III of England said "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."
However, Washington had an abiding faith in the young nation and a deep desire to return to his beloved Mt. Vernon and private life as a farmer. Congress had assembled in Annapolis in late November and awaited the general's arrival to resign his commission. He arrived on December 19 and immediately wrote to Congress to inquire as to how they actually wanted him to resign. A committee of Congress devised a ceremony that took place at noon on December 23. In the intervening days, Washington was feted with parties, balls and huzzas, including a gala ball on the night before the ceremony in the hall of the State House, where he danced with all the ladies.
On the day of the ceremony, Washington arrived at the State House where Congress was meeting in the Old Senate Chamber. When he entered the Chamber, the members remained seated, covered (with their hats on). In a short, emotional speech, Washington resigned his commission and then bowed to Congress. Only then did the members rise and remove their hats in a gesture of respect. As he left the Chamber to ride to Mt. Vernon in time to have his Christmas dinner at home, Washington handed his personal copy of his speech to a member of the committee. It is this copy that the state of Maryland has now acquired from a descendent of the member, in whose family it has remained since that day. .....
Ba-dum ch
But, imo, it was the Whiskey Rebellion which likely taught him it was best to resign rather than repeat the very actions which led to the people’s revolution in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
Just north of Goat island.
Taxation WITH representation ain’t so hot, either!..............
But he discovered the Sandwich Islands....AKA, Hawaii.........
That's exactly what got him into a permanent jam!
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