To: AnAmericanMother
I would guess the way they got volunteers was, "You guys can volunteer to go to the colonies or go to jail".
Kind of like the French did with German POW's at the end of WWII. Either stay in the prison camp or put on a French uniform and go to IndoChina.
208 posted on
01/10/2004 7:18:58 PM PST by
U S Army EOD
(,When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
To: U S Army EOD
Interesting summary of the whole Oglethorpe deal
here.209 posted on
01/10/2004 7:21:21 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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