Posted on 05/10/2010 5:33:22 PM PDT by writer33
On the evening of June 16, 1775, Colonel William Prescott took 1,200 Massachusetts and Connecticut soldiers to fortify Bunker Hill. General Thomas Gage had ordered that the position be captured. Mistakenly, Prescott passed the position, digging in at a lower position known as Breed’s Hill. What would ensue was a furious battle that would embolden the American people. The British, though victorious, were taught a painful lesson.
The British casualties that were injured or killed totaled 1,054. It was a demoralizing victory, and as General Henry Clinton noted, “It was a dear bought victory, another such would have ruined us.” The Battle of Bunker Hill would eventually come to be thought of as an American victory. It was General Nathanael Greene who said, “I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price. Today we know that the battle crippled the British army in America and threw it on the defensive for more than a year.”
Even though the Battle of Bunker Hill has become a footnote in history, the lesson for the American people is replete with wisdom. Today, we face an enemy as ugly and as tyrannical as King George’s British Army. The tyranny may be a soft tyranny, but it is threatening the liberty of millions of citizens yet to be born.
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I don’t know who this Chris Davis guy is, but I like him. I like him a lot. LOL!
lol.
Great article.
:-)
***The British, though victorious, were taught a painful lesson. ***
Victorious ONLY because the Americans ran out of gunpowder and shot.
Yes...had we had ample supplies and gunpowder, we likely would’ve won the battle, but as a fledgling country, we did damn well.
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property....[Therefore,] whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they [the officials of government] put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God had provided for all men against force and violence. Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust THEY [the government officials] FORFEIT THE POWER THE PEOPLE HAD PUT INTO THEIR HANDS....and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and....provide for their own safety and security." (emphasis added) If this is not a case of government putting itself "...into a state of war with the people..." -- I don't know what is.
Yes, indeed. Liberty and property are inseparably connected. The Founding Fathers knew this, drafting the U.S. Constitution so that the citizens under the government would be protected. And now here we are with the Democrat Party and Obama.
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On the evening of June 16, 1775, Colonel William Prescott took 1,200
Massachusetts and Connecticut soldiers to fortify Bunker Hill.
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Anybody visiting the Boston area for more at least a couple of days...
needs to make a circuit on The Freedom Trail.
To get across (IIRC) the Charles River to do the circuit, take
“The T” (the subway/rail system).
Did I mention there were (about 10 years ago) plenty of Dunkin Donuts
shops at some stops on The T?
Signs of a highly advanced civilization, despite the Kennedys!!!
And on the eighth day, God created Dunkin’ Donuts. :-)
Named Greensboro after Washington's second in command.
And he makes a mighty tasty Southern Pale Ale.
Sounds like a winner all around. :-)
Now that’s what I call “getting medieval on his a$$”.
Just damn.
I am sorry, I posted to the wrong thread. I had this and the 24 thread opened at the same time and got confused...lol.
Apologies FRiend.
LOL...Wrong thread or not, it fit!
It did fit. No apologies needed anyway. LOL!
May God grant today’s Americans this same courage and will.
Victorious ONLY because the Americans ran out of gunpowder and shot.
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- and no bayonets sadly. I’ve always wondered why the Battle of Bunker Hill wasn’t dramatized in a film.
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