Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.
Ezra Stiles continued:
"Who but a Washington, inspired by Heaven, could have struck out the great movement and maneuver of Princeton -- that Christmas (Day) eve when Washington and his army crossed the Delaware? ...
To: Perseverando
Apparently bribes and collusion didn't kick in until around 2015-16. 😳😁
2 posted on
12/26/2019 7:23:17 AM PST by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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So close.... "Russian military leaders began talk of a campaign to emancipate oppressed Christians under Ottoman rule, and free Constantinople, which had been the capital of the Christian world for nearly a thousand years. Their plans, though, were interrupted by the French Revolution."
3 posted on
12/26/2019 7:25:39 AM PST by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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4 posted on
12/26/2019 7:33:00 AM PST by
grey_whiskers
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“Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-1796) rebuffed King George III’s requests and bribes to have Russia side with Britain during the Revolutionary War.”
Russian collusion?
5 posted on
12/26/2019 7:39:05 AM PST by
HereInTheHeartland
(I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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7 posted on
12/26/2019 7:55:19 AM PST by
OLDCU
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10 posted on
12/26/2019 8:15:54 AM PST by
sauropod
(Hold onto that impeachment for a while. It'll get better with age, just like Jennifer Rubin has.)
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13 posted on
12/26/2019 8:29:32 AM PST by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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Sort of like the original special forces
14 posted on
12/26/2019 8:30:38 AM PST by
cyclotic
(Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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Thanks for the great history lesson.
I and my wife never heard of the Russian support in our war for survival with the Brits.
21 posted on
12/26/2019 10:30:42 AM PST by
Grampa Dave
(Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inheritered it, that way!")
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22 posted on
12/26/2019 10:31:07 AM PST by
Fiddlstix
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One thing you have to remember :
Russia (like France) was assisting the American Revolution to help THEMSELVES against the British and its expanding power.
They didn’t believe in the freedom the Americans sought - just in screwing their geopolitical enemies.
24 posted on
12/26/2019 2:00:51 PM PST by
elbook
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Beautiful post, but you are preaching to the choir here. Our high schools and colleges should be reading this.
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32 posted on
12/26/2022 3:44:29 AM PST by
mewzilla
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