Posted on 08/22/2024 7:23:37 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Some people don't like it when I'm activist. But if I was just sitting around and only complaining, how would things like this get completed?
Today, a "big fish" has arrived. For many, Patrick Henry is the GOAT. All I can say is please download and please share. This work is free to access, it is open source in the public domain. Patrick Henry; life, correspondence and speeches
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Eighth great grandson speaks all over at events. Patrick Jolley Henry iirc. Very eloquent and knowledgeable. the family place is Red Hill.
Henry’s life is remarkable. As is Thomas Paine who only escaped being guillotined in France in their revolution, because a jail guard chalked an X on the wrong side of the door (wino- is the guess). Seriously he was to be chopped.
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Just reading about Patrick Henry this morning. I forgot he was elected Governor of Virginia FIVE times, of which two times he declined.
It’s too bad educators [sic] have modernly often denigrated our Founding Fathers.
Just picked up a (brand new) Patrick Henry biography at a used bookstore - can’t wait to crack it open.
This is precisely why I am reviving old history books. The new historians are just like the journalists in the media. The old historians were honest, but sometimes their books can be hard to find.
This W.W. Henry book will very soon be on YouTube.
See also: How long ago did progressives start using American history to attack the Founding Fathers? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4229764/posts
Thank you for pinging me on this, sir, I will definitely download listen to it!
Folks,
we are so used to memes, cartoons and drive by postings. It is important to take the time to read something worthy and reflect on it, preferably the Bible but this is good too.
Use something like this to listen to when you go to sleep at night.
We cannot give to the next generation, what we do not have. Take time to learn our heritage.
Thanks! Will check it out.
Most of the old history books our out of copyright, meaning it’s legal to scan them into PDF format and post them on the Internet. Indeed, this is exactly what one unknown person did with the original 1898 issue of Winston Churchill’s, “The River War.” Right now, however, that book has been heavily edited by addition of footnotes and changing formats of printing. Now you can get it through eBay for about $160 for the two volume edition. It’s so well done (I have a copy) that it’s worth the money for any professional or amateur historian.
The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
https://librivox.org/the-river-war-an-account-of-the-reconquest-of-the-sudan-by-winston-churchill/
Of the few short minutes I listened to, it sounded like a really good recording.
I believe you. Churchill’s introduction, which covers the rise of the Mahdi and Gordon’s defeat at Khartoum, is absolutely lyrical. That especially includes his description of the Nile and the importance of the Nile in North African culture, without which North African culture would hardly exist. The most remarkable thing is that Winston wrote the book when he was 24 years old
He opposed the Constitution, tried to get a separation between the states, then after the ratification became its “biggest fan.”
He is a typical politician, cast in today’s democrat model. As Jefferson said, we should pray for his early death.
He was a spellbinding orator but afterwards people would have a hard time remembering exactly what he said.
Jefferson was not much of a fan.
Henry had enough influence to keep James Madison from being chosen as one of the first two senators from Virginia. Instead, Madison won a House seat--and from there drafted what became the Bill of Rights.
Will check it out! Why?
It appears my great x3 grandfather knew Patrick Henry and lived near him. Born in 1748, died 1850, he was at St. John’s Church and heard PH’s message (outside church as hundreds were - only delegates were inside) and immediately afterwards signed up - with his 4 brothers - to fight as Minute Men.....more than any other family in Hanover County, VA and probably more than any other family that fought in the war.
All this is in Federal records from his 1832 Rev. War Pension Application.
In 1802 the Fed. gov. offered a 2,000 acre land grant to all Rev. War vets who would move to the western territories. He packed up his 2 oxen, wife and son and headed west. One ox died in Macon County, TN on Long Creek. He took his 2,000 acres there - where my dad was born - and over 700 of those original acres are still in my family. My great x3 grandfather is buried there & I’ve been to his gravesite where the VA put up a monument to him in 1997.
I live about 17 miles from Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown home.
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Will download. Love Patrick Henry.
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