[Ostlandr]

Intolerable.

(hope I remember this quote right)

"Gentlemen, we do not want war; but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

Okay, brain burp- was it the Commander of Fort Sumpter who said that?

[doublecansiter]

Just before the opening shots of the Revolutionary War, at
Lexington, Mass. I think. Commander of the Lexington Militia.

Mike

[Criminal Number 18F]

"Gentlemen, we do not want war; but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

Okay, brain burp- was it the Commander of Fort Sumpter who said that?

Probably been answered, but it was Captain John Parker, commanding the colonial Militia at Lexington, in 1775 (the British regulars then cleaned his clock, but by the end of the day they had suffered great losses and strategic defeat).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F