Taking Back a Stolen Homeland - Scotland
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All eternity? That's a toughie.
No contemporary examples (or historic for that matter -harrumph) Closest that I can come up with is Hitler's belief in a thousand year Reich.
We all know how that turned-out
But, in the end, you still can't claim USA real estate. So the war was lost in spite of all your "kickass" battles. Between 1801 and 1815 the Brits lost 6 battles more than they won.
Time to end this joke of a topic:
Forbes lists queen Elizabeth the second as being the fortieth most powerful woman in the world. Surely if she owned all these countries that Blackleaf is touting, she'd be in better than fortieth place. According to Forbes, there are thirty nine woman in the world who are more powerful than the queen of England. None of them own Canada either.
Forbes lists queen Elizabeth the second as being the fortieth most powerful woman in the world. Surely if she owned all these countries that Blackleaf is touting, she'd be in better than fortieth place. According to Forbes, there are thirty nine woman in the world who are more powerful than the queen of England. None of them own Canada either.
I wonder if the political parties there are still inherited. f'n near died laughing when i heard that one.
Quite. List of battles 1801–1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Count em up Blacklaff. The USA led by 6 at the end of 1815.
"If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one."
--Lazarus Long
Yes and soundly.
Those farmers made the Brits run all the way back to Boston from Concord.
Whoop!
It was inevitable. We won fair and square.
And the same ones that burnt the White House were thoroughly beaten at the Battle of Baltimore. The most beloved General Ross of that expedition, who just days earlier burned the WH found himself pickled in rum with a bullet in his chest.
Here's the former Mayor of Baltimore, now the Governor of Maryland.
(OK, he's a Democrat. But a pretty reasonable one, and the music's good.)
O'Malley's March War of 1812 Celebration - YouTube
George Washington lost every battle he fought, except the last one. That is the one that counted.
Who wrote your history books?
The American Revolution - (Battles)
The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis's army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict.
In 1780, 5,500 French soldiers landed in Rhode Island to try to help their American allies in assaulting British-occupied New York City. The two armies met North of New York City in 1781. The French Commander, the Comte de Rochambeau, convinced the American Commander, George Washington, that an attack on New York City would be hard pressed to succeed and it would be easier for the French Fleet under the command of the Comte de Grasse to assist in the attack further south, because he was to bring the French Fleet into the Caribbean in October. Thus, they agreed to attack Lord Cornwallis and his smaller army of 9,000 men which was stationed in the port town of Yorktown, Virginia. In the beginning of September, de Grasse defeated a British Fleet that had come to relieve Cornwallis at the Battle of the Chesapeake. As a result of this victory, de Grasse blocked any escape by sea for Cornwallis. Washington had dispatched the French general Marquis de Lafayette to contain Cornwallis in Yorktown until he arrived, and Lafayette did so. By late September the army and naval forces had surrounded Cornwallis by land and by sea.
After initial preparations, the Americans and French built their first parallel and began the bombardment. With the British defense weakened, Washington, on October 14, 1781, sent two columns to attack the last major remaining British outer defenses; redoubts #9 and #10. A French column took #9 and an American column #10. With these defenses gone, the allies were able to finish their 2nd parallel. With the Americans' artillery closer and more intense than ever, the British situation began to deteriorate rapidly and Cornwallis asked for capitulation terms on the 17th. After two days of negotiation, the surrender ceremony took place on the 19th, with Cornwallis being absent since he claimed to be ill. With the capture of over 8,000 British soldiers, negotiations between the United States and Great Britain began, resulting in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The Battle of Trenton comes to mind with regards to Washington's victories. The Brits also chose to evacuate Boston instead of facing Washington's troops. I guess they couldn't afford any more victories like Bunker Hill.
CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A NEW THREAD ON THESE NON SCOTTISH LAND TENURE SUBJECTS???????
I'm out of Scottish Wildcat pix....
I'm out of Scottish Wildcat pix....
The Battle of Trenton comes to mind with regards to Washington's victories. The Brits also chose to evacuate Boston instead of facing Washington's troops. I guess they couldn't afford any more victories like Bunker Hill.
I understood he fought/commanded 13 or so major battles and lost all except for Yorktown???
