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What Captain Rodney Wrote—December 24, 1776
Conservative Right Wing News ^
| December 24, 2018
| Jeffrey A Friedberg
Posted on 12/24/2018 6:03:21 PM PST by RArtfulogerDodger
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To: RArtfulogerDodger
Has possibilities, but comes across as unfinished, leaving everything hanging.
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posted on
12/24/2018 6:17:00 PM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: RArtfulogerDodger
Reading this reminds me we had two wars in which England invaded the US (even torching our White House), then we fought WW I and WW II to save them.
Why shouldnt that country be nuked?
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posted on
12/24/2018 6:29:19 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: RArtfulogerDodger
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posted on
12/24/2018 6:51:17 PM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: RArtfulogerDodger
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posted on
12/24/2018 6:57:36 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Fiddlstix
Excelente
From valley forge !
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posted on
12/24/2018 6:59:23 PM PST
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/24/2018 9:54:47 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
The Thomas account is what I refer to as “the grunt’s eye view”.
In that view, everything is wrong. Leadership has no clue. All is always lost. Everyone’s gonna die. It’s all mud and blood for no good gain.
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posted on
12/24/2018 10:53:02 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
Ya don't have to like it, ya just have ta do it.
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posted on
12/24/2018 11:07:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
And every good infantry commander knows that if the troops ain’t complaining out loud then they’re planning mutiny on the quiet.
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posted on
12/24/2018 11:41:34 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh, and...
Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/24/2018 11:42:39 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: marktwain
The rest of the story is on the link. (That is a REALLY long excerpt!)
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posted on
12/24/2018 11:53:43 PM PST
by
21twelve
(!)
To: 21twelve; marktwain
Sorry - the complete article at the link also leaving it hanging. Although I guess we all know how it ended. (Except that I thought the Hessians WERE drunk!?)
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posted on
12/25/2018 12:00:48 AM PST
by
21twelve
(!)
To: RArtfulogerDodger
An interesting effort but a bit hokey: the main force in the Christmas Eve battle for Trenton were Continentals, not militia, the .75 caliber Brown Bess musket weighs 10.5 pounds, not 12 (and was not usually used by militia) and no, the Hessian mercenaries were not "super soldiers" that could fire a smoothbore musket "four or five times a minute" (well-trained men could load and fire one 3 times a minute max).
Whoever wrote this rather breathy piece of fiction needs to be better informed.
P.S., The term "sniper" is from far into the future.
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posted on
12/25/2018 4:34:28 AM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Grimmy
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posted on
12/25/2018 5:07:15 AM PST
by
RArtfulogerDodger
(peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/25/2018 5:07:41 AM PST
by
RArtfulogerDodger
(peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
To: Chainmail
THIS IS JUST A SMALLISH PART of what you **dont** know; i cant bother with ALL the rest of it, vato. :)
RevolutionaryWarJournal.Com:
The preferred choice of musket, (also labeled as flintlock, firelock, or smoothbore) in the British Army and subsequently in the American Army during the American Revolution was the Brown Bess. Rugged, simple, sturdy, and terrible at close quarters, when fired (if it fired), this smooth bore (grove bored were rifled muskets, later simply called rifles), hurtled a round ball weighing about fourteen to the pound. For all the legends and discussion on the muskets firing power, it was basically a handle for a bayonet its most destructive and fearful advantage on the battlefield...
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posted on
12/25/2018 6:20:12 AM PST
by
RArtfulogerDodger
(peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
To: ConservativeMind
Why shouldnt that country be nuked?=========
Ah, one of the few who actually understands. These people have never been our friends, we have allowed them to use us, and they repay us by spreading not true freedom, but by spreading a leftist globalist agenda that is the opposite of true freedom.
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posted on
12/25/2018 6:29:40 AM PST
by
sailor76
(Trump is our last hope!)
To: Chainmail
WOW, EVERYTHING YOU APPARENTLY **DONT** KNOW IS JUST, LIKE, WELL, ALL DEPRESSING AND STUFF.... :(
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOCKET BAYONET:
http://www.collegehillarsenal.com
WEIGHT: 2 LBS.
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posted on
12/25/2018 6:30:11 AM PST
by
RArtfulogerDodger
(peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
To: RArtfulogerDodger; Chainmail
The American Army, also known as Continentals, were NOT the same as the Militia.
Indeed, the Continentals (American Army) had the Brown Bess, but Militia, such as your Thomas, did not. They had whatever firearms of the time that a man could afford.
So in this regard, Chainmail is correct.
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posted on
12/25/2018 6:42:49 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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