Ulster's not a part of Ireland? Yeah... whatever... 
Posted on 05/24/2015 10:40:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
"Freedom's Frigate" is the nickname of a sailing ship now on its way to America. It's a replica of the French vessel that helped our country win the war of independence. Before its departure, Mark Phillips went aboard:
As memorials to American wars go, this one goes right back to the first one -- the Revolutionary War. And it is certainly among the most handsome and most intricate history lessons ever built.
A newly-launched replica of the French frigate, Hermione, is now in mid-Atlantic, ploughing her way westward toward the U.S. East Coast. She's retracing the voyage of the original Hermione, whose mission was so crucial in the American War of Independence that she may be one of the most important warships in U.S. naval history, and the most forgotten.
The original was built for speed, and so, according to her crew, is the copy.
"Lafayette said she sails like a bird, and that's true," said Marc Jensen.
Lafayette is the point of this story. The French aristocrat and great friend of George Washington's, the Marquis de Lafayette, was returning to the revolutionary battle aboard Hermione on that 1780 voyage, and he was bringing good news -- that French troops and more fighting ships were also coming to America to support the cause.
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"Typical fenian martyr complex" - ah yes, the British expression for Drapetomania.
Most curious, what?
Boo hoo... go and see Al Sharpton. I hear he’s into getting reparations.
Ireland needs no reparations.
It just needs England to get the hell out.
We ARE “the hell out” of Ireland. We are in Ulster. It is not part of Ireland. It is part of the UK.
Ulster's not a part of Ireland? Yeah... whatever...
Yeah...whatever. I suggest you learn the difference between geographical divisions and political ones.
Yeah, whatever. And I suggest you stay out of conversations having to do with freedom. It’s not a subject (get it?) Brits tend to grok. Not that it matters - a few more years and you’ll all be speaking Arabic anyway.
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