Posted on 04/30/2024 5:58:42 PM PDT by CottonBall
Amen
Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅
@DanScavino
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THANK YOU, NEW JERSEY! #TrumpRally #TRUMP2024
https://twitter.com/i/status/1789509173589238098
44 second video of the huge crowd
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/trump-rally-today-live-wildwood-nj-boardwalk/
Big economic boost to Wildwood yesterday because of the Trump Rally
Hi Ms.B.
I had to spend the day in ER on Thursday. We suspected Congestive Heart Failure, which may still be the case, BUT it would be very early. The reason for my fatigue and shortness of breath turned out to be pneumonia, for which I am on antibiotics and a diuretic to reduce edema.
Not fun, but I’m getting a little energy back and puttering around a bit.
How are you feeling? How’s the pain situation? Getting old is for the birds, isn’t it??!!
Amen, getting older is tuff, but it is also getting closer to God and hopefully focusing on the real truly important things.
Amen, getting older is tuff, but it is also getting closer to God and hopefully focusing on the real truly important things.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Seth Warner captures Fort Crown Point
On this day in history, May 12, 1775, Seth Warner captures Fort Crown Point at the south end of Lake Champlain. In colonial times, Lake Champlain, Lake George and the Hudson River formed the border between the French and British colonies and the original Fort St. Frederic was built here by the French in 1734 to guard against British invasion.
When the French and Indian War broke out in 1754, Fort Carillon was built 15 miles south to strengthen the barrier. The British were finally successful in driving the French back to Canada in 1759, but the retreating French forces destroyed both forts to prevent the British from using them. Both forts were rebuilt and renamed Fort Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga.
At the end of the war, Britain received all of the French territory and the two forts lost their strategic value. Both forts fell into disrepair and were lightly guarded up to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Despite the fact that very small British garrisons guarded the forts, a vast amount of military supplies, cannons, howitzers, mortars and ammunition were stored there. As the New England militia surrounded Boston after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, various people suggested the two dilapidated forts should be immediately assaulted and the weapons captured.
Captain Benedict Arnold of the Connecticut militia suggested the idea to George Washington who sent him to accomplish the mission. Simultaneously, Ethan Allen, Seth Warner and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont were moving on the forts. The two groups worked together and captured Fort Ticonderoga and its 70 British soldiers on May 10, 1775. Two days later, Seth Warner took 100 men and captured Fort Crown Point, which was guarded by a meager 9 soldiers. In November, Colonel Henry Knox would arrive and drag 60 tons of the captured weapons across the mountains to Boston where they were used to force the British to abandon the city.
After the Americans captured Crown Point, it was used as a staging ground for operations into Canada. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold staged an attempt to capture Fort St. Jean from here later in May, but were driven back. In the fall of 1775, a major American invasion force gathered at Crown Point under General Philip Schuyler. This army was eventually defeated and retreated back to the fort in June, 1776, riddled with smallpox. Hundreds of American soldiers died from the disease at Crown Point.
Benedict Arnold spent the summer building an American fleet on Lake Champlain, while the British did the same at the north reaches of the Lake. When the two forces finally engaged at the Battle of Valcour Island in October, the American fleet was largely destroyed or captured and retreated to Crown Point, which was abandoned to the advancing British. British General, Sir Guy Carleton left Crown Point, however and returned to the north for the winter.
The following summer, the British made a major invasion down the lake in an attempt to capture the entire Hudson Valley. Fort Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga quickly fell to British General John Burgoyne. Burgoyne’s army was finally defeated and captured at the Battle of Saratoga in October, but the two forts remained in British possession until the end of the war.
Today, the remains of Fort Crown Point are part of the Crown Point State Historic Site, which is managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation.
Note: Some sources place the taking of Crown Point on May 11 and not May 12.
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Thank you, http://revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/, for this essay.
12:50 PM · May 12, 2024
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Thanks for all the chuckles today!
Question- the last pix in this post.. is this a well known family? Your family?
Exceptionally gorgeous day here in mountains.
Met Mr. cotton who is out fishing camping, kayaking at a TVA area which is what I’d like to think heaven is like. He took Cooper- an absolutely precious pup! And a weeeee bit more social then his cat sister and brother
Mr Cotton is strikingly handsome! 👍👍
Dinner party for friends is at 6
Did you pamper Mrs Norsky? Cook up a yummy meal?
SO cute!!
“Only Trump could get 80,000+ people to a beach in Wildwood,NJ on a Saturday. All those intrepid people sent the nation and the world a signal that was unmistakable—Trump’s support has increased, not decreased, and he is going to win in November.”
I ❤️ that
“Let me know if you need the bail money.”
too funny! I did have a couple of errant driving issues going to the lake, but will hopefully behave the rest of the day.
Nope, not my family, just a happy mothers day post of a happy family and great grandparents
My pleasure!
Bible in a Year :
As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what my God says.
After the Paris Peace Conference that concluded World War I, French Marshall Ferdinand Foch bitterly observed, “This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.” Foch’s view contradicted the popular opinion that the horrifying conflict would be the “war to end all wars.” Twenty years and two months later, World War II erupted. Foch was right.
Long ago, Micaiah, the lone true prophet of God present at the time, consistently prophesied dire military results for Israel (2 Chronicles 18:7). In contrast, four hundred of King Ahab’s false prophets foretold victory: “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king,” a court official told Micaiah. “Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably” (v. 12).
Micaiah responded, “I can tell him only what my God says” (v. 13). He prophesied how Israel would be “scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd” (v. 16). Micaiah was right. The Arameans killed Ahab and his army fled (vv. 33-34; 1 Kings 22:35-36).
Like Micaiah, we who follow Jesus share a message that contradicts popular opinion. Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Many don’t like that message because it seems harshly narrow. Too exclusive, people say. Yet Christ brings a comforting message that’s inclusive. He welcomes everyone who turns to Him.
Reflect & Pray
When the Spirit leads you to say or do something, how will you do so in love? When have your own assumptions needed to be challenged by God?
Father, please give me the wisdom to discern Your truth.
train move’n kinda slow.
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