Posted on 07/03/2023 5:35:10 PM PDT by waterhill
This fool and his dad are liars. Don't fall for their crap. They have alot of things wrong.
The Revolutionary War. You know, when we as the Colonies told Mad King George to go eff himself/when we declared WE were free! Duh!
My family has been here a while, I get hopped up.. Also got the Haudenausani blood...cannot help it around this time of year. Won’t go in to my 1735 Scot ancestors who arrived in chains ( though I am glad for it)
VERY PROUD AMERICAN
Not sure that was the last actual battle. Might have held them off, but not much killing?
Well they are on TBN
I like original documents too. Doesn’t mean the person presenting them has knowledge of understanding
I have no sympathy for the DAR ...
I’m a Loyalist ...
Plus I didnt appreciate the gall of the DAR setting up a table right in the lobby of an annual Fourth of July lunch event for veterans last week ...
Tennessee Nana UE
American Veteran
King’s Mountain was a major Patriot victory by the “Overmountain Men” and arguably the most important battle of the Southern Campaign but I’ve never seen it called “the last battle of the revolution”.
There was a string of battles yet to come before London admitted defeat. Cowpens. The race to the Dan. Guilford Courthouse. Ninety Six. The Battle of the Virginia Capes, where the French navy set the stage for Yorktown. And lastly Yorktown itself and Cornwallis’ defeat.
Leading up to Yorktown, the Battle of Cowpens was a major turning point.
Kings Mt. was bloody. It was guerrilla.
Things I don’t like about the DAR/SAR.
But you are a loyalist? 247 years later and you are a loyalist? Loyalist to whom? That meant something else back then.
A loyalist back then was a lover of mad king george....
David Barton isn’t considered a serious historian and you never find his work cited by other historians. He likes to pretend that that’s because of a religious bias against Christianity but that’s not the problem. The problem is that he bends history to make America some kind of expicitly Christian experiment when it wasn’t. That would apply to the Plymouth Colony alone. Jamestown was a decade older and founded as a joint stock company chartered by the King. A business enterprise.
My 6th GGF Capt Timothy McGinnis was a colonialist who fought with the British Army but he and his fellows were never ‘Regulars’
They were of the Provincial Army and wore their buckskins Remember the Yankee Doodle Dandy song ???
My GGF was killed at the Battle of Bloody Pond at Lake George NY fighting the French and Indians on 8 Sept, 1755...
His widow and children were ‘rewarded’ for that by being mistreated by some of the very neighbors he had died saving ...
GGM and daughters and grandchildren were arrested and thrown into Fort Dayton, a rebel prison, and their trading post burnt down ...
My 4th GGM Hannah De Forest Secord was only 10 years old at the time ...
The rebels fled when they heard General St Leger was coming and the family and other women and children were able to escape and go north to Canada ...
The Battle of Yorktown (September 28, 1781 and ended on October 19, 1781, in Yorktown, Virginia) was the largest battle of the American Revolution, combining engagements on land and at sea.
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“The 1782 Battle of Blue Licks was one of the last major engagements of the American Revolutionary War.” - Wikipedia
The "Beetlejuice", "Edward Scissorhands", "Batman" director guy?? ;-)
Though preceded by years of unrest and periodic violence, the Revolutionary War began in earnest on April 19, 1775, with the battles of Lexington and Concord. The conflict lasted a total of seven years, with the major American victory at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781 marking the end of hostilities, although some fighting took place through the fall of 1783.
This is a scan of the signatures at the bottom of the Treaty of Paris.
When did the American Revolution end?
The Treaty of Paris was signed two years later, on September 3rd, 1783, by representatives of King George III including David Hartley and Richard Oswald and the United States including Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, officially ending the conflict. The treaty was ratified by the US Congress of the Confederation on January 14th, 1784.”
You are probably right. It was close to the last. I went and visited Matt’s area a few years ago. He lost a couple kids (OverMountain) And he is buried with one of his sons in Georgia on private property (little house). I owe him lots of respect though.
So as I listen to the fireworks outside....you are not a loyalist anymore?
It’s been 247 years and King George is a skeleton....just sayin’
But if you are still a loyalist......
Dudes been dead for a minute. But if you like him, why are you here?
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