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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:59:15 GMT
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David Koudys wrote:
> Wasn't it a massive insurrection against a tyranny? Didn't the newly started
> country raise a rather large army to ward off the Brits? Wasn't it, then,
> really, an army against an army? Whether you Yanks partook in gurrilla warfare
> in the woods and the 'Red Coats' marched around in proper rank and file (easy to
> be pegged off--sometimes those Brits...) is not the point. The point is that it
> was a legitimate army composed of soldiers, under the command of your CNC. It
> wasn't a guy here and a guy there with a gun in their houses waiting for 7-8
> generations for something to happen so that they could get out the guns and
> start an insurrection.
True, but it didn't start that way. And if the farmers in 1775 had
quietly rolled over and turned in their guns, the army of 1776 would not
have been able to be raised.
Here's a pretty good short account of the day:
http://www.ctssar.org/monthly_history/y1775april.htm
Frank
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| (...) Wasn't it a massive insurrection against a tyranny? Didn't the newly started country raise a rather large army to ward off the Brits? Wasn't it, then, really, an army against an army? Whether you Yanks partook in gurrilla warfare in the woods (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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