happy? - July 16 (Mad Anthony Wayne)

Subject: happy? - July 16
From: Abby Sale
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 10:16 AM

7/16/1779: General Mad Anthony Wayne & American light infantry take UK garrison at Stony Point, NY

          His sword-blade gleams, and his eye-light beams,
          And never glanced either in vain;
          Like the ocean tides, at our head he rides,
          The fearless Mad Anthony Wayne!
          Bang! bang! the rifles go,
          Down falls the startled foe; Bang! bang! the rifles go,
          Down falls the startled foe.
  
                  "Mad Anthony Wayne" in I. Silber, Songs of Independence also on
                  Folkways LP: Songs & Ballads of Colonial & Revolutionary America

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Subject: RE: happy? - July 16
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 10:19 AM

Happy, indeed. :)

Thanks, Abby!


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Subject: RE: happy? - July 16
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 01:45 PM

Also check out the Cow Chase, in Digitrad. Wayne was less heroic to the British.