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?
Indeed. In fact, he copied GW in his notion of retreat is better as long as you keep the army together, than fighting in unwinnable circumstances.
Didn’t hurt that, like the Brits, Santa Anna stupidly split his force.
Yes, LaFayette. We were stuck on American fighters.
LOL - are you an accountant?
Really? She was only about 14 at the time, and didn't do much that I recall. Do you mean the Marquis?
The French soldier and sailors. There were more Frenchmen at Yorktown under LaFayette than there were Americans. Don’t forget the Battle of the Chesapeake was won by Admiral Compte de Grasse when he defeated the British rescue fleet, bottling up Cornwallis and his troops with no possible escape.
Don’t forget Patrick Henry. He was a formidable leader. “Give me liberty or give me death” will forever ring in the halls of liberty loving people.
So, technically, GW is the Grandfather of Texas. So much of the Alamo ane San Jacinto, you can see and sense his genius of deception he learned from Sun Tzu that Houston modeled his strategy for Independence.
Robert Morris, without question.
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Francois-Joseph-Paul de Grasse-Rouville, Comte de Grasse, was the French Admiral who won the Battle of the Capes, stopped the British navy from reinforcing Yorktown, and ensured Cornwallis’ surrender and the end of the American War for Independence. His defeat at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782, however, allowed the British to hold onto the West Indies.
Born on September 13, 1722, to an aristocratic family near Grasse, France, he entered the French navy in 1733 at the age of 11. By 1743, Grasse had been promoted to Ensign and served in a number of major naval conflicts against British fleets during the War of Austrian Succession. He was seriously wounded and then captured in battle off Finisterre, remaining in England for three months before his exchange. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1754 and received his own ship, the Zephyr, in 1757. Promoted to Captain in 1762, his commands took him to India, the West Indies, and the Mediterranean. When the alliance between France and the United States was signed in 1778, he commanded a squadron in the indecisive Battle of Ushant off the Breton coast in late July (which generated a major British political controversy between two naval officers, Admiral Augustus Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser). Grasse then served in the West Indies, where he performed with particular distinction in engagements against Admiral George Rodney.
During the French Revolution, Grasse’s four daughters escaped to America and settled with their brother in Charleston, South Carolina. After an initial grant of $1,000 to each of them, in 1798 Congress awarded them a pension of $400 per year for five years. Two daughters died of yellow fever in 1799, but the other two survived and remained in the United States.
Buck Sexton replayed the interview on his show tonight.
Good job!
Got my vote.
I’d rather be a viscount, but will settle for baronet.
The First Maryland Line.
According to popular tradition, Washington bestowed his high esteem upon the Maryland Line after viewing their heroic stand at the Battle of Long Island. Given the order to defend the American withdrawal from Long Island, the Maryland Line saved the Continental Army from annihilation in the first major battle of the war. “Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose,” Washington remarked to Israel Putnam as he witnessed the Marylanders repeatedly charge Cortelyou House, effectively holding back the British advance. Later, Washington described their efforts as an “hour more precious to American liberty than any other.”
Daniel Morgan - the three pivotal battles of the war were Trenton (Washington) Cowpens (Morgan) and Saratoga (Freeman’s Farm - Morgan and Bemis Heights - Morgan)
BTTT!!
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement between Patriot forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Sir Banastre Tarleton fought on January 17, 1781. As part of the campaign in the Carolinas, a force of 1,100 British under Tarleton were sent against 2000 men under Morgan. The Patriot forces were able to perform a double envelopment of Tarleton’s force, at the cost of only 12 killed and 61 wounded. Tarleton was one of around 160 British troops to escape.
It was Admiral de Grasse who defeated the British in the battle of the Capes...the Battle of the Chesapeake. Louis XV’s minister of war was the first to come up with the idea of aiding the Americans against the British in order to weaken the British in their ongoing war with the French, LaFayette’s intervention with Louis XVI sealed Franklin’s efforts. Lafayette had equipped his own soldiers and purchased a ship to sail to America to aid the Americans...all at his own expense. He was nineteen years old. He was 20 when he was badly wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He is buried at Paris under soil from Bunker Hill. The American flag flies at his grave.
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