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Who Was The Least Expendable Hero of The American Revolution?

Posted on 07/04/2017 2:32:11 PM PDT by Eagles Field

I always savor the insight Freeper History Buffs offer, especially the spirited difference in opinion. The easy answers are Washington, Jefferson, the like. Who are the ones unsung, where the tide may not have turned without?


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: 4thofjuly; georgewashington; history; independenceday; usa
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To: GreenLanternCorps

We used to have a trivia board game called “The Bicentennial Game.”


161 posted on 07/05/2017 4:15:30 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: Retain Mike

I’ll tell you a terrific set of reads.

Begin with “Killer Angels,” Jeff Shaara’s novel about Gettysburg. Even though fiction, it’s really solid.

THEN, read Newt Gingrich & Bill Forstchen’s “Gettysburg” and the two books that follow. These are counterfactual fiction ((if there is such thing) in which the South wins at Gettysburg. Terrific. I’ve re-read these a half-dozen times.


162 posted on 07/05/2017 5:18:38 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: yarddog

Many books on the American Revolution don’t even mention the fighting in Florida and Louisiana. And how many Americans know that the final battle of the war was fought at Cuddalore, India in 1783?


163 posted on 07/05/2017 8:42:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: LS

An amusing statement. Please note that England was the seagoing country at the time. France was and is a strong military factor on land. Frenchmen don’t stop an advance for their cuppa.


164 posted on 07/05/2017 11:36:17 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: wardaddy; ichabod1

funny, because Crispus Attucks and the rest of that Boston crew he hung with were pretty much regarded by both sides as just a bunch of rowdy drunks who liked to taunt the Redcoats. IIRC John Adams defended the soldiers who fired on them.


165 posted on 07/07/2017 3:31:55 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Mollypitcher1; Eagles Field; LS

I’d nominate my Virginia militia ancestor who commanded a blocking force across the York river at the Siege of Yorktown. His great contribution of preparing and waiting for the escape attempt that never came gets obscured by those glory hounds Washington, Lafayette, etc. Totally unfair.

Other than that I’ll have to go with the always overlooked Admiral de Grasse at the Battle of the Chesapeake, without whom Cornwallis would have escaped the trap at Yorktown and the British wouldn’t have given up.


166 posted on 07/07/2017 3:52:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

I had Carroll ancestors at the Battle of Williamson’s Plantation, the first of the series of militia victories in South Carolina that led up to the big victories at Kings Mountain and Cowpens. It was a small battle but an important one, the patriot militia saw that they could defeat British troops.


167 posted on 07/07/2017 4:01:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Pelham

Every little victory helped build momentum and was needed to boost morale.


168 posted on 07/07/2017 5:01:46 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Tax-chick

I loved that too

The turret fight scene

The prince in green

All from memory


169 posted on 08/11/2017 1:20:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: wardaddy

Yes, it was simple, but exciting.


170 posted on 08/11/2017 4:07:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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