[Pharmboy]

General Burgoyne

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[icwhatudo]

“a pittance of troops....will only serve to protract the war”

So true

[blau993]

I took a tour of the Yorktown battlefield last Summer. The Park Service Ranger gave a marvelous presentation, largely based on letters from both sides. These sorts of letters are immensely valuable to historians. It is one thing to hear what the players said ten or twenty years after the fact when they succumbed to the all-too-human tendency to reconstruct and embellish. It is quite another thing to hear what they said at the time in private letters never intended for public consumption.

[neverdem]

“Killing seems to me a very unnatural trade, but these people are beyond nature as well as reason,” Strachey wrote to his wife after the British won the Battle of Long Island in August 1776. “They might at this moment have peace and happiness, but they insist upon having their brains knocked out first.”

This sounds depressingly familiar with respect to the current, supposedly loyal, opposition.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Pharmboy. Nice pic of Burgoyne. Gentleman Johnny got the shaft not merely for his own silliness, but also by General Howe, who was supposed to move north in support and to link up, and decided to seize Philadelphia instead. He wound up getting recalled as a consequence of that. Regardless, I'm appalled sometimes at the garbage that Washington put up with, mostly from politicians, as he let his hand be heavy where and when he could, and remained just out of reach of his adversaries. Valley Forge was well chosen by Washington to contribute to Howe's misstep. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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