The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Lundy's Lane (7/25/1814) - Sep. 7th, 2003

http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/events/lundy2.html ^

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for doing the running 9-11 rememberance thread.

Some good pictures and painful memories there, but we need to remember.

[SAMWolf]

1776 American submersible craft Turtle attacks British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in the first use of a submarine in warfare.

American "Know How" even before there was an America

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, everyone.

Blessed are they who give
without expecting even thanks in return,
for they shall be abundantly rewarded.

Blessed are they who translate
every good thing they know into action,
for ever higher truths shall be revealed unto them.

Blessed are they who do God's will
without asking to see results,
for great shall be their recompense.

Blessed are they who love and trust their fellow beings,
for they shall reach the good in people and
receive a loving response.

Blessed are they who have seen reality, for they know
that not the garment of clay but that which activates
the garment of clay is real and indestructible.

Blessed are they who see the change we call death
as a liberation from the limitation of this earth-life,
for they shall rejoice with their loved ones
who make the glorious transition.

Blessed are they who after dedicating their lives
and thereby receiving a blessing, have the courage and faith
to surmount the difficulties of the path ahead,
for they shall receive a second blessing.

Blessed are they who advance toward the spiritual path
without the selfish motive of seeking inner peace,
for they shall find it.

Blessed are they who instead of trying to
batter down the gates of the kingdom of heaven
approach them humbly and lovingly and purified,
for they shall pass right through.

- Mildred Norman

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Victoria.

Have you checked out jriemer's memorial thread?

I've got a busy morning, keep an eye on the Foxhole for Snippy and I?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, Sam.

Have you checked out jriemer's memorial thread?

I don't remember. I'll check it out.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Victoria for your Sunday prayer.

[SAMWolf]

Grave of nine unknown U.S. Soldiers who died at the Battle of Lundy's Lane

[SAMWolf]

Lundy's Lane Monument
The monument reads ...
Erected by the Canadian Parliament in Honour of the Victory gained by British & Canadian Forces on this field on the 25th day of July 1814 and in Grateful Rememberance of the Brave Men who died on that day fighting for the unity of the Empire

[SAMWolf]

Re-interment ceremony of eleven solders from the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Upper Canada, in 1814, c.1900.

[SAMWolf]

Our Military Today
The Search Goes On

Soldiers from "Renegade" Platoon, Bravo Company, 2/8th Infantry, attached to 1/67 Armor Battalion located in Baqubah, Iraq, kick down a gate during a raid in a local village of Diyala Province, Iraq, on Aug. 28, 2003. The 2/8th Infantry and 1/67 Armor Battalion are part of the 2nd Brigage Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division and are in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Davis


Soldiers with the 3/502nd Infantry Regiment search a bunker during a security patrol in Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D. Meacham


U.S. Army military police forces and Iraqi policemen raid a Baghdad mosque suspected of housing illegal weapons and wanted members of the former Iraqi regime, Aug. 29, 2003. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Robert R. Hargreaves Jr.


Soldiers of 3/502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) secure the roof of a house being searched in Mosul, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sept. 1, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham


Soldiers with the 3/502nd Infantry Regiment detain an Iraqi policeman discovered inside a house during a recent raid. The building was suspected of harboring wanted members of the former Iraqi regime in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 1, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham

[snippy_about_it]

U.S. Army military police forces and Iraqi policemen raid a Baghdad mosque...

Good to hear that we are looking into their mosques and aren't worried about being PC about it!

Thanks for the pics SAM.

[SAMWolf]

Well, we'll have to see how long it is before the PC Police complain.

[snippy_about_it]

'There was no stopping, nor escape, into battle we must go.'

This quote from a 14 year old American. Amazing.

Thanks SAM for today's history lesson.

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome Snippy. One of the more obscure battles in our history but the Canadians remember it.

[snippy_about_it]

I miss you already! Good Night SAM.

[SAMWolf]

Good Night Snippy. I was just getting used to having you around. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Well, we'll have to see how long it is before the PC Police complain.

That won't take them long!

[HiJinx]

Good night, guys!
See you in the AM....zzzzzzz.

[PhilDragoo]

Graves' last book on Lundy's Lane is perhaps the best of the three, although trying to rank these books in order of merit is difficult, as they are all equally researched and well-written. Lundy's Lane was a slugfest between two relatively small armies, locked in deadly close-quarter fighting, where, it seemed to some of the participants, everybody was becoming casualties. One British junior officer remarked that it was the deadliest, most savage fighting he had seen, and he had been engaged previously in fighting the Grande Armée in Europe.

Musket fire at bayonet range, into the grimace of bared teeth.

Now you can't picture the french in this scene, no, not the french.

Bravo, another excellent vignette of valor.

We shall have to have R. Lee Ermey form up the bratty press and march them into such scenes, to cook out the attitude.

Imbedding the Press, next Sunday on Mail Call.

You there in the third row from Reuters with the excrement-eating grin!
Yes, you, maggot!
I want you to drop now for one pushup for every coalition fighter lost in the entire conduct of these operations!

[SAMWolf]

Good Night HiJinx.