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TITLE Brigadier General
WAR & AFFILIATION Revolutionary War / Patriot
DATE OF BIRTH - DEATH July 6, 1736 - July 6, 1802

Daniel Morgan, an American hero during the American Revolution, grew up with a rebellious streak. As a young man, he settled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley outside Winchester. Morgan worked as a teamster, hauling freight to the eastern part of the colony.

His teamster career drew him into the French and Indian War, during which he helped to supply the British Army. He soon became known as the “Old Wagoner.” He accompanied General Edward Braddock on his ill-fated campaign against the French and Indians at Fort Duquesne. During the expedition, Morgan annoyed a superior officer who struck him with the flat of his sword. Morgan knocked the man down. For his impertinence, Morgan was punished with 500 lashes—typically fatal number. He survived the ordeal, carrying his scars and his disdain for the rest of his life. Afterward, when Morgan retold the story, he commonly boasted that the British had miscounted, only giving him 499.

Morgan eventually joined a company of rangers in the Shenandoah Valley. Outside Fort Edward, Morgan and his companion were ambushed by Indians allied with the French. Morgan took a musket ball through the back of his neck that crushed his left jaw and exited his cheek, taking all his teeth on that side of his mouth.  He miraculously survived the encounter but carried the scars with him for the rest of his life.

After the outbreak of the American Revolution, Morgan led a force of riflemen to reinforce the patriots laying siege to Boston in 1775. His company, known as “Morgan’s riflemen” marched from Virginia to Boston in 21 days. These Southerners and frontiersmen quickly gained a reputation for their hard fighting ways and the incredible accuracy of their rifles.  They also distinguished themselves through their dress.  Morgan and his men wore hunting shirts, a distinctly American garment that soon struck fear in the British Army because of the known accuracy of the American riflemen, and soon became a common uniform item in the Continental Army. Later in 1775, Morgan participated American expedition to invade Canada organized by General Benedict Arnold. During the Battle of Quebec, Arnold suffered a wound to his leg, forcing command of the American forces on Morgan. The combat, however, resulted in his capture along with 400 other Americans. His release several months later was followed by his promotion to colonel of the 11th Virginia Regiment.


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Crispus Attucks, whom many historians credit as the first man to die for the rebellion, became a symbol of Black American patriotism and sacrifice. In 1770, as tension mounted between British and colonial sailors in Massachusetts ports, distrust and competition among them grew. These pressures came to a head on March 5th, when an angry confrontation turned into a slaughter known as the Boston Massacre. Witnesses say that Attucks, a middle-aged runaway enslaved man of African and native American descent, who worked as a sailor and a rope maker, played an active role in the initial scuffle. Of the five colonists killed, he was said to be the first to fall—making him the first martyr to the American cause. He was taken down by two musket balls to the chest.
 READ MORE: 8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks

• Margaret Corbin was the first American woman to receive a pension as a soldier. Her story is told as part of the Molly Pitcher legend.

 The actions of Molly Pitcher are usually attributed to one Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. (The nickname “Molly” was common for women named “Mary”.) Mary Ludwig was born to a German family in Pennsylvania circa 1744. Details of her childhood are not widely known, though it is believed that her father was a butcher, she had several siblings, and that she was not taught to read or write.
She married William Hays, a foober, in 1769. Hays was a Patriot involved in the 1774 boycott of British goods that arose as protest for the unfair tax being placed on the colonies.
In 1777, Hays enlisted in the Continental Army and was trained as an artilleryman. Mary followed and joined a group of camp followers led by Martha Washington. They took care of the troops, washed clothes, made food, and helped care for the sick or injured soldiers.
In the Battle of Monmouth in June of 1778, Mary Hays carried water from a spring to the thirsty soldiers under heavy fire from the British. When her husband collapsed (sources claim either heat stroke or injury) and was carried off of the battlefield, Mary Hays took his place at his cannon. Once, a cannon ball came so close, that it actually went between her legs, ripping her petticoat. She is only known to have said something along the lines of, “Well, that could have been worse,” and went back to firing her cannon.
 

nefarious101 » 02 Jul 2022, 8:45 am » wrote: ↑

02 Jul 2022, 8:45 am

TITLE Brigadier General
WAR & AFFILIATION Revolutionary War / Patriot
DATE OF BIRTH - DEATH July 6, 1736 - July 6, 1802

Daniel Morgan, an American hero during the American Revolution, grew up with a rebellious streak. As a young man, he settled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley outside Winchester. Morgan worked as a teamster, hauling freight to the eastern part of the colony.

His teamster career drew him into the French and Indian War, during which he helped to supply the British Army. He soon became known as the “Old Wagoner.” He accompanied General Edward Braddock on his ill-fated campaign against the French and Indians at Fort Duquesne. During the expedition, Morgan annoyed a superior officer who struck him with the flat of his sword. Morgan knocked the man down. For his impertinence, Morgan was punished with 500 lashes—typically fatal number. He survived the ordeal, carrying his scars and his disdain for the rest of his life. Afterward, when Morgan retold the story, he commonly boasted that the British had miscounted, only giving him 499.

Morgan eventually joined a company of rangers in the Shenandoah Valley. Outside Fort Edward, Morgan and his companion were ambushed by Indians allied with the French. Morgan took a musket ball through the back of his neck that crushed his left jaw and exited his cheek, taking all his teeth on that side of his mouth.  He miraculously survived the encounter but carried the scars with him for the rest of his life.

After the outbreak of the American Revolution, Morgan led a force of riflemen to reinforce the patriots laying siege to Boston in 1775. His company, known as “Morgan’s riflemen” marched from Virginia to Boston in 21 days. These Southerners and frontiersmen quickly gained a reputation for their hard fighting ways and the incredible accuracy of their rifles.  They also distinguished themselves through their dress.  Morgan and his men wore hunting shirts, a distinctly American garment that soon struck fear in the British Army because of the known accuracy of the American riflemen, and soon became a common uniform item in the Continental Army. Later in 1775, Morgan participated American expedition to invade Canada organized by General Benedict Arnold. During the Battle of Quebec, Arnold suffered a wound to his leg, forcing command of the American forces on Morgan. The combat, however, resulted in his capture along with 400 other Americans. His release several months later was followed by his promotion to colonel of the 11th Virginia Regiment.


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Leaderships point the direction, the fellowships make reality work. Fatal problem with reality, none reflect how living actually works naturally displaced and the scripted type cast people eventually eliminate themselves from adapting to life biological results are only eternally separated now.

Individual liberty is maintained in civility between equal displacements regardless which generation or gender they arrived or time departed. Living doesn't exceed the space of mutually evolving here since conceived to replace the 30 people previous 4 generations combining previous DNA additions into adding another generation of great great grandchildren.

why doesn't humanity treat DNA configuration like it does simple compounding interest in economics?

“…[If] it appears that the only way to safety is through fields of blood, I know you will not turn your faces from our foes, but will undauntedly press forward until tyranny is trodden underfoot…”Dr. Joseph Warren, March 5, 1775. Commemorating the Boston Massacre three months before he was killed in battle.

Warren’s Herculean activities during the decade before his death at the age of 34 left a legacy largely overshadowed by the accomplishments of other forefathers:  He was dedicated to the patriot cause, rising to lead the major committees that protracted the build up to war.  For his efforts with the Committee of Safety and organizing the militia around Boston into an army, he was commissioned a major general.  He advanced medical knowledge though research, established one of the first apprentice medical education programs in the colonies, and practiced medical care for the poor and underprivileged.  Warren was capable at seeing both sides of an issue and gaining the respect from both his colleagues and the enemy.  He was comfortable conversing in the parlor among society’s finest citizens, and could readily sit with ease in the presence of Boston’s most hardened laborers and ‘mechanics’. 

https://www.revolutionarywarjournal.com/warren/

Battle of CowpensThe Battle of Cowpens1, January 17, 1781, took place in the latter part of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution and of the Revolution itself. It became known as the turning point of the war in the South, part of a chain of events leading to Patriot victory at Yorktown2 The Cowpens victory was won over a crack British regular army3 and brought together strong armies and leaders who made their mark on history.Beginning with the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge4, the British had made early and mostly futile efforts in the South, including a failed naval expedition to take Charleston in 1776. Such victories boosted Patriot morale and blunted British efforts, but by 1779-80, with stalemate in the North, British strategists again looked south. They came south for a number of reasons, primarily to assist Southern Loyalists5 and help them regain control of colonial governments, and then push north, to crush the rebellion6. They estimated that many of the population would rally to the Crown.In 1779-80, British redcoats indeed came South en masse, capturing first, Savannah7 and then Charleston8 and Camden 8A in South Carolina, in the process, defeating and capturing much of the Southern Continental Army9. Such victories gave the British confidence they would soon control the entire South and that Loyalists would flock to their cause. Conquering these population centers, however, gave the British such a false sense of victory that they didn't count on so much opposition in the backcountry10. Conflict in the backcountry, to their rear, turned out to be their Achilles' heel.

TITLE Major General
WAR & AFFILIATION Revolutionary War / Patriot
DATE OF BIRTH - DEATH August 7, 1742 - June 19, 1786
Nathanael Greene’s rise to prominence as one of the most skilled and celebrated generals of the American Revolution appears unlikely based upon his early life. Greene was born to a devout Quaker family in Rhode Island in August of 1742. Greene had a deep interest in education, a characteristic frowned upon by the Society of Friends. In July 1773, the local Quaker meeting dismissed Greene for being caught in a "house of public resort".
As relations between Great Britain and her North American colonies spiraled toward armed conflict, Greene helped establish a local militia unit, the Kentish Guards. A visible limp prevented Greene from joining the Guards. The Rhode Island Assembly, however, commissioned Greene a Brigadier General in the newly formed Army of Observation which marched to Boston following Lexington and Concord.

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For those of you who like to read there is...

Washington's Immortals...By Patrick O'Donnell

The rot we see in politicians and "information spreaders" these days is not new.
It just seems a whole lot more intense these days.

Everybody wants to be a Town Crier and nobody takes the time to think much anymore.

A belief that our country is worth the effort gets eroded by loudmouthed know-it-alls.

George Washington, the first American general, president, and national hero was born in rural colonial Virginia on February 22, 1732. After the early death of his father, a young George Washington (only seven years old at the time) learned the ways of farming and planting as he became the primary owner of his family's plantation farm. He stayed at home throughout his early teenage years, helping his mother run the family's estate.




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TITLE Captain
WAR & AFFILIATION Revolutionary War / Patriot
DATE OF BIRTH - DEATH July 6, 1747 - July 18, 1792

As an officer of the Continental Navy of the American Revolution, John Paul Jones helped establish the traditions of courage and professionalism of the United States Navy. John Paul was born in a gardener's cottage in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, went to sea as a youth, and was a merchant shipmaster by the age of twenty-one. Having taken up residence in Virginia, he volunteered early in the War of Independence to serve in his adopted country's infant navy and raised with his own hands the Continental ensign on board the flagship of the Navy's first fleet. He took the war to the enemy's homeland with daring raids along the British coast and the famous victory of the Bonhomme Richard over HMS Serapis. As such he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the United States Navy". 

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I have a personal Dog in This Fight...one my Mother's side





Marion gained his first military experience fighting against the Cherokee Indians in 1760. In 1775, he received a commission in what became the 2nd South Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line. Marion fought at Sullivan's Island and Continental effort to recapture Savannah. Due to an injured ankle, escaped the surrender of Continental Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to the British at Charleston in May 1780. He soon regrouped and organized a unit of militia. Marion focused his efforts on disrupting the British supply and logistics system, making himself a thorn in the Crown's side. After eluding Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton at Ox Swamp in November, 1780, Tarleton declared "as for this damned old fox, not even the devil himself could not catch him", earning the famous nickname, "Swamp Fox".

TITLE Brigadier General
WAR & AFFILIATION Revolutionary War / Patriot
DATE OF BIRTH - DEATH c. 1732 - February 27, 1795


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American Spies of the Revolution


Nathan Hale. 

During the Battle of Long Island, Nathan Hale--a captain in the Continental Army--volunteered to go behind enemy lines in disguise to report back on British troop movements. Hale was captured by the British army and executed as a spy on September 22, 1776. 


Benjamin Tallmadge

In November 1778, George Washington charged Major Benjamin Tallmadge with creating a spy ring in New York City, the site of British headquarters. Tallmadge led the creation of the Culper Spy Ring, recruiting friends to work as his informants.


 Abraham Woodhull

A farmer and the son of a local Patriot judge, Abraham Woodhull joined the Culper ring in November of 1778. Woodhull was essentially the leader of the Culper Spy Ring, deciding what information was transmitted throughout the group, which would eventually make its way to George Washington. In order to evade British detection, Woodhull operated under the pseudonym, “Samuel Culper Sr."

 
Anna StrongWell-

Connected within the New York, colonial, upper class, Anna Strong utilized her farmstead on Long Island to help transfer intelligence information to the other members of the Culper ring. Strong’s husband, Selah Strong III, was a prominent Patriot judge who served as a captain during the war. Anna Strong arranged clothes on her clothesline as a means to signal fellow Culper spy Caleb Brewster regarding the location of hidden documents to be transported.

 
James Armistead Lafayette

An enslaved African-American who volunteered to join the army under Lafayette in 1781, Armistead served as a double agent working for the Patriots. Armistead posed as a runaway slave who agreed to work with the British, though in actuality he was collecting intelligence from the British and reporting back to Patriot forces.

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-wash ... evolution/
 

Forlorn Hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high....A Suicide Mission!




Lieutenant John Mansfield (1748 – 1823) was one of the faceless thousands who valiantly served his country from the first to last shots of the American Revolution. It is difficult to encapsulate, in a couple of thousand words, eight years of hardships – the struggle, the bitterly cold winter camps, the hunger and the fear, and the sheer brutality of combat. In several major battles, from April, 1775 until October 1781, he displayed incredible perseverance and courage; from a twenty mile crossing of Long Island Sound in a small whale boat participating in one of the most successful raids and incursion into enemy territory in the war, to a midnight bayonet attack on an impregnable fort, having to suffer through winters with little food or clothing, surviving one of the worst bombardments of the war, and the terror of combat, staring down death at an age where life’s many paths are just beginning to open. At the Battle of Yorktown, Colonel Alexander Hamilton noted the youthful officer for leading the forlorn hope that chopped through the abattis at Redoubt number ten, storming the embankment and leading to victory and the final capitulation of Cornwallis’ army

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Happy 4th Weekend Neffy....great thread..!!
We were blessed to have these selfless bad asses lead us to one of the most free and successful societies in history.
Compare our leaders of the past to the typical [[[NWO STOOGE]]] we have today.
It is sickening.

GHETTOBLASTER » 02 Jul 2022, 12:37 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jul 2022, 12:37 pm

Happy 4th Weekend Neffy....great thread..!!
We were blessed to have these selfless bad asses lead us to one of the most free and successful societies in history.
Compare our leaders of the past to the typical [[[NWO STOOGE]]] we have today.
It is sickening.

lol
Can I be a wise arss.. I thought it was brought to me by Oscar Meyer Weiners,,
sorry,, i'm otta here!! forgive me!

Happy 4th back at you! Great history lesson. Thanks.
All those patriots would see our nation today as utterly shameful and unworthy of their sacrifices.
Our current military leaders know it but instead of Operation Valkyrie, they cower to politics and weaken our nation and fighting forces.

So, we have to be vigilant and rely on folks like this guy, the neo-patriot:



To take care of these guys:



 
 
 
 

DeplorablePatriot » 02 Jul 2022, 2:44 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jul 2022, 2:44 pm

Happy 4th back at you! Great history lesson. Thanks.
All those patriots would see our nation today as utterly shameful and unworthy of their sacrifices.
Our current military leaders know it but instead of Operation Valkyrie, they cower to politics and weaken our nation and fighting forces.

So, we have to be vigilant and rely on folks like this guy, the neo-patriot:



To take care of these guys:

what did you do to Ode? you know what i mean?lol

I foresee a lot of violence. Only not from patriots.

GHETTOBLASTER » 02 Jul 2022, 12:37 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jul 2022, 12:37 pm

Happy 4th Weekend Neffy....great thread..!!
We were blessed to have these selfless bad asses lead us to one of the most free and successful societies in history.
Compare our leaders of the past to the typical [[[NWO STOOGE]]] we have today.
It is sickening.

We are becoming a nation of sissies...once we were a nation of warrior farmers each with our own kingdom