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History Has Basically Forgotten These American Military Defeats
TopTenz ^ | DECEMBER 29, 2019 | LARRY HOLZWARTH

Posted on 12/31/2019 12:28:21 PM PST by artichokegrower

Americans have never accepted defeat easily. Not in sports, not in politics, not in warfare. Defeats in battle have only been sustained, in the American psyche, when the enemy has resorted to treachery, or the soldiers defending a given position were overcome by overwhelming odds, despite heroic and inspiring resistance.

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KEYWORDS: america; bloggers; blogpimp; clickbait; history; warfare
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To: artichokegrower

Wake Island has a singular distinction.

It is the only time is modern history that an amphibious assault was repelled by the defenders.


61 posted on 12/31/2019 4:08:30 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: artichokegrower

Perhaps a better question would be:

Name one place where America has had a clear cut military victory since the UN was formed in 1945?

Go ahead, take your best shot.


62 posted on 12/31/2019 4:55:37 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: Cold Heart

My step grandpa was an Indian... he said they were white soldiers and we put them in the wheel narrow and dumped for the dogs. Dad beat my ass when got back. I was 6 or 7 at that time. We had 12 brass flag points. Hundreds of arrows and other stuff.


63 posted on 12/31/2019 5:48:42 PM PST by Jumper
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To: artichokegrower
Doesn't allow adblockers to visit.

So eff em.

64 posted on 12/31/2019 6:17:42 PM PST by onona
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To: DownInFlames

Vietnam was not a military loss, it was a military victory that led to the Paris Peace Accords peace agreement which led to the military withdrawal.

After the US military pull out the dems, after successfully getting Nixon out of office, defunded the South Vietnamese. Without much needed military supplies they were over run by the North.

Some of the last South Vietnamese tanks defending Saigon literally ran out of fuel.

I think you’ve been listening to the libtards, the one parroting Vietnam as a military loss.


65 posted on 12/31/2019 6:53:20 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: Bulwyf

It goes all the way back to Wilson and the League of Nations.

That’s approximately when the traitorous State Department started taking control of American Foreign Policy.

The ONE WORLDERS are still pissed about the League of Nations failure, now their trying it with the DEMOCRATS and the UN.


66 posted on 12/31/2019 6:53:46 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Freee-dame
"After the War of 1812, however, more Americans thought of themselves as Americans rather than primarily as citizens of their state."

Where can I find out more about that?

67 posted on 12/31/2019 7:11:32 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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To: redfreedom

Nam was a total loss. There was no victory. We tucked our tail and fled.


68 posted on 12/31/2019 7:17:35 PM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: artichokegrower; All

Pardon me but we Southerners consider both Drewry’s Bluff & Ball’s Bluff to be VICTORIES, though not as humiliating for our invading enemy as MARYE’S HEIGHTS & FORT WAGNER were.

That said, we Southerners consider the assault of the 54th Mass at Ft Wagner to be GLORIOUS even in their utter defeat & martyrdom, just as we honor the valor of COL Chamberlain & his 20th Maine.

Yours, TMN78247


69 posted on 12/31/2019 7:17:59 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Husker24
Some people say the 63 year championship trouble with the Detroit Lions has to do with the curse of Bobby Layne, but it has more to do with General William Hull surrendering Fort Detroit many years before. When it started looking like there could be a problem with supply lines. Lionesque strategery like we're so used to now had Hull viaing for a higher draft pick by tanking the team.

It's an interesting show to watch but Detroit has work to do on reputation. Espeshilaly when we're lion's fans.

70 posted on 12/31/2019 8:13:25 PM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: Jumper

Beat your ass for what?


71 posted on 12/31/2019 9:02:18 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Husker24

Dumping their bones at the end of the driveway on the farm.


72 posted on 12/31/2019 9:39:48 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Verginius Rufus

If you go to Quebec City and see how high it is up the bluff over the river, you might wonder WTH were we thinking. I think we tried to take Quebec twice IIRC


73 posted on 12/31/2019 9:52:34 PM PST by olesigh
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To: central_va

This son of the south first thought Gettysburg


74 posted on 12/31/2019 11:25:18 PM PST by Jolla
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To: colorado tanker

the list is forgotten battles, most remember Pearl


75 posted on 12/31/2019 11:28:24 PM PST by Jolla
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To: DownInFlames

Bullshit


76 posted on 01/01/2020 5:36:12 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: Alas Babylon!

I knew someone who was an American soldier in the Philippines in December 1941. He survived the Bataan Death March and more than 3 years as a prisoner of war. He died a few years ago in his 90s. He did not have a good opinion of General MacArthur.


77 posted on 01/01/2020 3:03:06 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: olesigh

I have been there. It is quite a formidable cliff. They attacked on December 31 because some of the enlistments ended at the end of the year. There is also a marker in the old city marking the house where Richard Montgomery’s body was kept before the funeral. The current building on the site is later. His remains were later removed to the United States. Most of the Montgomery Counties in the US are named for him.


78 posted on 01/01/2020 3:06:06 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

thanx. My lady friend only wanted too shop.


79 posted on 01/01/2020 3:10:56 PM PST by olesigh
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