BS: March on Washington, 1814

Subject: RE: BS: March on Washington, 1814
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 03:35 PM

Bill D. Your comment is well taken, and my articles were, uh, the technical term is 'stolen' although I briefly pruned the first one the second one was so damn good, especially the leading question... does history really explain anything? - that I posted it in detail. And both articles from the New Yorker (which I pay for). I love history, but as a young student I felt that it was someone else's story being dictated to me, kinda like Christmas. As I grew older I realized that I really like stories and history tells the most fantastic ones. As Tom Clancy said: "Fiction has to be different from reality because fiction has to be believable."
As Homer Simpson has said: "History is just a bunch of stuff that happened".
As a Yankee who loves English history (which melds with both Canadian and USAn history) I was fond of telling my foreign friends "We loved Canada so much we tried to take them over - failed, and called it good after the second time." Or as the costume guard/ guide at Fort Halifax told me: "We built this fort to protect us from YOU LOT."

More realistically, there was plenty of aggression from the North. More than once the English came down with India allies and laid waste t Massachusetts territory and kidnapped locals. And raids were led in the other direction. I won't load another long quote into this thread but Kenneth Roberts wrote histories aimed at young adults including one called Rogers' Rangers where the raiding party is chased back to their supply point in upstate New York such that any stragglers caught by the Inidians have their heads used as footballs. And the supply point is abandoned in fright just as they are arriving their dead on their feet (the movie version reversed this). And the Rogers of Roger's Rangers fought with the Loyalists during the American War of Independence.

Subject: RE: BS: March on Washington, 1814
From: sciencegeek
Date: 15 Sep 14 - 04:26 AM

well, the 200th anniversary is over; the impossible song has been sung and resung and we have another chance this November to retake Washington from the idiots.

The dun cow I've been watching the past two weeks finally had her calf.. a nice little heifer. Now for a name... Frances?

Subject: RE: BS: March on Washington, 1814
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 15 Sep 14 - 07:20 PM

"and we have another chance this November to retake Washington from the idiots." Like that will ever happen.

Subject: RE: BS: March on Washington, 1814
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 16 Sep 14 - 09:24 AM

well, I can always hope...

started reading a book about the engagement between the Boxer and the Enterprise that took place Sept. 1813 near Portsmouth, Maine... Knights of the Sea by David Hanna. It seems quite promising and well researched, trying to portray the two ship commanders that both died in the battle and the world that shaped them.