Commodore Perry did much to stave off that assault.
Yeah that was close game....
Agree, and that was the beauty of the Revolution and 1812
We went from Colony to big dog in under 50 years
And it was the Average Joe who stood up and said Hell No
Another average Joe that I feel deserves mention in this line is General Custer, yes ole Yellow Hair (part Indian, it happens) He led a Cavalry Brigade I believe of very raw recruits from Michigan. Their job that day was behind the lines probing for the enemy and protecting the rear...
And that is precisely where Jeb Stuarts Cavalry boys showed up, timed to be the pincers to Picketts charge
On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, 1863) during the disastrous infantry assault nicknamed Pickett’s Charge, there were two cavalry battles: one approximately three miles (5 km) to the east, in the area known today as East Cavalry Field, the other southwest of the [Big] Round Top mountain (sometimes called South Cavalry Field).
The East Cavalry Field fighting was an attempt by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s Confederate cavalry to get into the Federal rear and exploit any success that Pickett’s Charge may have generated. Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David McM. Gregg and George Armstrong Custer repulsed the Confederate advances.
They stopped em cold, and Jebs boys were the best Lee had...
Definitely Bad ass