And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Washington, in his twenties and one of Braddock's aides, was the only one of the general's aides to come out of the battle uninjured. But he had a musket ball hole in his had and three in his jacket. Close call x4!
Read Allan Eckert's Winning of America series and you may be astounded that we are not speaking French today. The British were completely, totally incompetent until Quebec. The Americans, the same until Yorktown. The lesson may be never surrender.
The case can be made that Washington's earlier actions, just two miles from Braddock's eventual grave, prompted the opening shots of the French and Indian (Seven Years) War.
Read Allan Eckert's Winning of America series and you may be astounded that we are not speaking French today. The British were completely, totally incompetent until Quebec. The Americans, the same until Yorktown. The lesson may be never surrender.
ReplyDeleteThe case can be made that Washington's earlier actions, just two miles from Braddock's eventual grave, prompted the opening shots of the French and Indian (Seven Years) War.
ReplyDeleteThe Jumonville incident.
DeleteRugged close country to fight in.
ReplyDeleteGood thing you explained that.
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