Posted on 09/05/2002 6:59:29 AM PDT by illstillbe
Welcome to PeopleForAFreeCountry.com
No. I have no wish to trick any of you. The ongoing and virulent decline towards bitterness ... grudges carried from one thread to another ... name calling ... defections and assaults on good Patriots' integrity here lately got me to thinking what a site would look like if it was up and running during the Revolutionary War ... during a time when ALL of our futures were at stake, as they are now.
Would it be any different ... or would the same passions and conflicts prevail ... the same differences of opinion? What did they use instead of tin foil ... did they even need it?! What were the arguments ... how were they resolved, if they were?
We've the luxury of FreeRepublic to settle disputes ... or carry them on ... be active or not ... on a minute-by-minute basis. If these long ago Patriots had the same ... how would they have responded?!
I would ask ... if flames are in this thread's future, please direct them towards me ... otherwise...
Here's a start to a thread, begun well over 200 years ago, where everything old is new again ...
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Your name reminds me of one of the brightest events of this war.
The bravest single ship duel between The Bonne Homme Richard ... Captained by John Paul Johns and the HMS Serapis. 'Twas September 23, remember?
The Serapis vastly outgunned the Bonne Homme Richard ... for it was barely seaworthy at best ...
When the Captain of the Serapis called out, "Do you SURRENDER?!", the Patriot John Paul Jones answered, "Surrender be damned, I have not begun to fight!"
Ah, yes American Spirit at full flag.
Posted by The Serapis sank
I hear tell that the Captian of the Serapis would wear red pants on deck during battle so when and if wounded, his men would not be frightend by the sight of his blood...
Be there any truth to the story that after the reply from the Patriot JP Jones to his surrender request that he quickly changed into his brown pants for similar reasons...
May the timbers the Serapis and the bones of her crew rest in peace in the briny depths whence the Bonne Homme Richard sent them. They shall trouble us no more.
Posted by: Loaded Musket
This thread makes me want to go out and chop some wood....I need to carve a new seat for the outhouse....and new teeth for granny.
LOL! I heard that as well, Loaded Musket. Pride goeth, don't you know!
Posted by: No Blubbering Blimeys
Well ... I'll be needing to take my horse to the Smithy in an hour or so. *grins*
I understand porcelain is all the rage in France...but unfortunately, I don''t speak the language....guess I'll live with the splinters and granny will have ready made toothpicks.
He he he he! Me thinks that pride be not the only thing that "goeth" aboard the Serapis!
Posted by: The Kings Bane
Ack!
Go blow some snuff, you fool!
Return to your history books...The British army would have lost the continent to the French and their Indian allies, if it hadn't been for the colonial militia!
I tell you, as the day is long, we CAN roust the Redcoats from our shores!
Peace! The very word will not pass my lips as long as the haughty creatures spoil our land!
Posted by A Virginia Patriot
my wife, BehulaBlackDress.
Thou should speak with care, fair sir; otherwise Behula may get designs on doing men's work, mayhap she even attempt to acquire an office! Har-har-har.
Signed: AttucksWasMyFriend
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You country buffoons have so much to learn....about waging war, governing AND romance!
Signed, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
P.S. AND you don't take enough baths!
What mean you, "Oust the Redcoats from our shores!" Ha, those bumblers in Philiadelphia can't even agree on whether we should be united states.
Pray, thee, G. Washington keeps interrupting their deliberations with dispatches begging for funds for the troops. Can you imagine how that upsets all of the delegates, who then lose track of where they are and have to begin the debates all over again!
'Tis a pity.
Posted by LustyWindForCarolina
To:Tory Glory
Let me disabuse you of a small portion of the vast amount of misinformation crowding your cranium.
While 'tis true in the Battle of Oriskany, American relief forces sent to relieve the siege at Fort Schuyler were ambushed ... they fought off that attack and delivered to the British troops heavy damage ... severly depleting the enemy's forces.
In so doing, they cleared the way for another ... this time successful ... passage for a rescue of the Fort.
Not well done of you, sir.
Posted by: Morgan's Rifleman
Go blow some snuff, you fool!
Thank you VP ... this needed to be said ... and to think we've a hope of building a new and Free Country with those such as he. I salute you!
Posted by: Freeman's Farm
Sir, or Madam,
Here I do agree with you.
Those delegates! They hardly know their kneebreeeches from their wigs!
They do us little credit...
Signed, A Virginia Patriot
To: Martha never wanted to be President
I have newly plucked a chicken ... the feathers are fine and will be used for a comforter this winter. Now I will throw it is a pot. Precious few vegetables to add as rain has been a long time coming.
Posted by: Daisy Cutter
Can you believe that that silly billy T. Jefferson has been tearing the convention up with the untoward proffit of a resolve to cease and desist all slavery?
The delegates are in an uproar. There will never be agreement on this declaration. What can that man be thinking - and him a Virginian!
Signed, LustyWindforCarolina
FOTFLMHO ... jtill so funny ...
To:LustyWindforCarolina
"The delegates are in an uproar"
This is why your puny efforts to defy the King will fail. Such hypocrisy. You will come back to the Mother Land ... beaten and failed ...
Posted by: William Augustus Bowles
PS ... I really even hated to type his name ... this is me ... illstillbe ... talking ... ick!
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