Blue State Blues: Donald Trump, the Battle of Cowpens, and the Art of the Comeback

Breitbart ^ | 3 Jul 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Donald Trump is in the fight of his life.

Several recent national polls show that he is behind former Vice President Joe Biden by double digits. Biden also leads in most of the key battleground states.

And much more is at stake in 2020 than the usual question of which party controls the government.

Democrats want to undo the very structure of our government and our society. Biden says he wants to “fundamentally transform” the country with “revolutionary institutional change.”

Those are not the words of a “moderate.” They are warnings that Biden — or the people controlling his campaign — will not stop the violence of Antifa, or the radicalism of Black Lives Matter, but will carry out their “1619” agenda.

The 2020 election will determine whether the United States will continue to be a constitutional republic governed by rule of law, or whether we will be a post-democratic socialist state, ruled by elites and terrorized by mob.

It feels as though we have our backs to the wall.

That is how General Daniel Morgan and his Continentals must have felt in South Carolina in January 1781, when they were forced to retreat from Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and the British Redcoats.

The Americans ran out of room to maneuver as they neared the Broad River in Cherokee County. Morgan knew he would have to make a final stand.

The result was the Battle of Cowpens.

I happened to visit the battlefield last summer, as I covered the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. On a drive between events on Biden’s itinerary, I took a detour to see the historic site.

[bwest]

“President Donald Trump is in the fight of his life.”

What, again?

[Truthoverpower]

Snore.

let me know what the Poll
says on November 3

OK dumb ass?

[econjack]

Oh, NO! I remember how the polls read back in 2016 and Mr. Trump was going to...oh, wait a minute. He won! Deja vu?

[Rebelbase]

“Historians recount that much of the landed gentry in the South remained loyal to the Crown, giving the conflict the feeling of a a civil war between between Patriot and Loyalist, neighbor and neighbor.”

Nowhere more true than in Upstate SC.

[bort]

The “landed gentry” must have been named McRyan, McRomney, McCain, McMurkowski....

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Even Breitbart has to push this hoax that Trump is losing in the polls in order to generate ‘clicks’.

The only way Biden has a chance of winning is if ALL the States send mail-in ballots to every registered voter.

It will take massive voter fraud for Biden to come out on top.

[Joe 6-pack]

The climactic battle in the Mel Gibson movie, "The Patriot," is loosely based on the Battle of Cowpens. Good movie which I usually try to watch around Independence Day.

As a side note, I bought the DVD when it came out quite a few years ago, and there was a, "making of," bonus feature.

One of the segments showed the wardrobe people and how they created the uniforms for the movie. They were given unprecedented access to revolutionary war uniforms and clothing in the Smithsonian. One of the seamstresses talked about how she carefully examined one uniform to look at details of the trim and stitching, and she remarked about the sweat marks that were still around the collar. She said the she was struck with awe as it occurred to her that, "This is the sweat that bought my freedom."

I don't know why, but that little segment has stuck in my mind for many years.

[BuffaloJack]

We had family at the Battle of Cowpens and at the Battle of King’s Mountain.

[stormhill]

President Donald Trump is in the fight of his life.

Wrong!
President Donald Trump is in the fight of our life. If we, in fact lose the election, we have lost the country. I didn't use the trite expression, "the country as we know it," I said "the country" because once the final decline begins there will be no one to apply the brakes and there will be no brakes to apply on the way to oblivion. Patriots must learn to paraphrase Lincoln and say, "I can't spare this man. He fights!"

That said, Joe Biden is not the opposition. Regardless of any poll result, that pathetic, forlorn shadow of the man once known as the dumbest person in the senate will not be sufficiently cogent on January 20 to take the oath of office. Any one thinking he will be the next president must truly be smoking the wacky-tobacky.

[bert]

There is a great weekend trip from Abington Virginia to Kings Mountain NC via the Cowpens. It is traversing the National Overmountain Victory Trail that follows the gathering of malitias from the muster ground in Abington to Sycamore Shoals and Fort Watauga in Elizabethton, across the mountain to Marion NC and on to Cowpens and thence Kings Mountain.

It is a National Park Service Historic Trail with a printed guide describing places and events followed by the Overmountain Men in 1780. There is a small visitors center in Abington and a very good museum at Sycamore Shoals State park plus fort Wataugs. The trail goes to the National Battlefield at Cowpens where the Overmountain men readied for the battle at Kings Mountain. There is an NPS National Battlefield at Kings mountain.

It is a great trip through the back roads of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

There is a very good NPS staffer at Kings mountain who researched all the various Revolutionary battles. Surprisingly, there are far more in SC than any other colony with New Jersy coming in second.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[A strike]

I very much appreciated the Joel B. Pollak Breitbart historical article, however it claimed that General Daniel Morgan had earlier survived 499 lashes.
Not saying impossible, but was this a typo?

[Sirius Lee]

We need a 1493 movement, founded on the principal that Westetn Civilization is superior to the cannibalistic, human sacrifice savagery that existed in the Americas prior to Cristobol Columbo. Not sorry!

[Luke21]

And then they can do the millions of Bush Administration officials thingy again. Joel listens to too many of his Harvard pals.

[mewzilla]

Hmmm...Trump as a modern day, much taller, Swamp Fox tasked with draining The Swamp...

I can dig it.

[jmaroneps37]

Daniel Morgan’s niece Nancy Hart was a tough woman who turned the tables on a gang of Loyalists who invaded her home. They knew her husband was not there (he was fighting at Kings Mountain) and thought they could invade the family’s home, rape the women, murder them and burn the farmhouse and barn down. Nancy was way too smart for them. She made them breakfast as the demanded and offered them some corn whiskey. When they were drunk enough she grabbed the rifle of one of them and ordered them outside. The leader ignored the command and started toward Nancy who shot him dead. The others complied. When her husband arrived home he found one dead and five others tied to tree. Nancy insisted they hang them all which they did. Soon word got around that the story was a yarn made up by backwoods Georgians. But in 1912 some workers digging on the old Hunt farm found six skeletons buried right where the story said they would be. Daniel was not the only tough Morgan.

[susannah59]

Not a typo. Morgan himself told that story. He had his own wagon and team and hauled supplies for the British. He got into an altercation with a British officer and punched the officer out. He was sentenced to 500 lashes and, later, when he told the story he said that the person administering the punishment miscounted. He also showed his scars on at least a couple of occasions. Did he exaggerate? No way of knowing that, now.

[susannah59]

I haven’t done the entire trip but have been to most of those places. I had at least one ancestor among the Overmountain Men. (I still have relatives in Elizabethton, Marion, and in between.)

Morgan’s brilliance was in how he dealt with and used the militia. He didn’t try to get the militia to act as regulars; he used their strength and weakness to his advantage.

If you’ve never read it, I’d recommend The Road to Guilford Courthouse by John Buchanan.

[A strike]

‘k, thanks for that;
I’d be astonished if that were the actual case unless as you mention maybe the punisher ‘miscounted’ : 1,2,3,4,7, 18, 30, 40, 90, 150, 200, 400, 499. Take that you seditionist colonist!
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