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To: lentulusgracchus

Johnny Horton indeed. I posted it on a thread a long time ago back when he was arguing that the yankees "captured" the uninhabited and abandoned Fort Davis in the middle of nowhere, thus striking a great blow to the confederacy in the west!


3,267 posted on 03/03/2005 9:56:38 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: GOPcapitalist; lentulusgracchus

I was reading the lyrics and humming Battle of New Orleans myself.


3,271 posted on 03/03/2005 10:12:25 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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capture: to gain control of, or exert influence over; to take possession of

Y'all need to hit them books and git you'selves a little larnin'.

Ignoramuses.

3,284 posted on 03/04/2005 1:05:52 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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