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“The bloody butcher” is what colonists called British Colonel Banastre Tarleton. He let his dragoons bayonet and hack hundreds of surrendering Americans at Buford’s Massacre during the Battle of Waxhaw, May 29, 1780. In January of 1781, 26-year-old Colonel Banastre Tarleton led 1,200 of Britain’s best troops, consisting of British dragoons, regulars, highlanders and loyalists, in a day-long, non-stop pursuit of theContinue reading “Battle of Cowpens: A Tactical Masterpiece & Revolutionary War Turning Point”

The first of the new American fighting ships was now finished in Boston. The war of 1812 had started. The USS Constitution, under the command of Captain Isaac Hull, sailed from Boston on August 2, 1812 and steered for the blustery waters southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. After two weeks of daily gun drills in preparationContinue reading “Exploits of the USS Constitution”

Algerian–American War (1785–1795): After Spain concluded a peace treaty with Algiers in 1785, the Algerian corsair captains entered the waters of the Atlantic and attacked American ships, refusing to release them except for large sums of money. Two American ships, the schooner Maria, and the Dauphin were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced into slavery, theirContinue reading “History of the US in the Mediterranian Sea”

I wish to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11.  I could recall the actions of the brave firemen who climbed up those burning buildings, and it would be appropriate.  However, to make the commemoration more meaningful I much prefer to tell you a true story that happened that day about a brave blond girl,  which you have probably never heard. IContinue reading “Heather Penny – 9/11”

Back in the early 1900’s Britain calculated she could easily break up the tottering Ottoman Empire in order to get Mesopotamia with Kirkuk and its oil under control, to pull the plug on the emerging German oil line to Baghdad and to take Mesopotamia and the oil-rich Middle East including Persia itself. The plan is what became known in history as World War I. As theContinue reading “World War One and The Amazing Sargent York.”

Lafayette believed in the American Revolution, though he was a French citizen and a young French militay officer. While still in his teens, he purchased a ship and persuraded some other French Officers to sail to America and fight for its revolution against the British. General Washington was so grateful, and since he had noContinue reading “The Amazing Marquis de Lafayette”

In 1788, poet Robert Burns published an ancient Scottish folk song that many sing at New Years celebrations……..”Auld Lang Syne,” meaning “in days of old gone by.” A similar poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1881, titled “Auf Wiedersehen,” meaning “until we meet again.” Longfellow dedicated this poem to the memory of his friend James T. Fields. In it, he alluded to the BibleContinue reading “The Captain’s Daughter”

People have heard much about George Washington as General over the Revolutionary War and as President of the new nation. However, they have heard very little about him as a young man. He was such an interesting young man. To rectify that, I have compiled some of his feats as a young man. Do readContinue reading “Young George Washington”

“I have not yet begun to fight!” shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the 50-gun British frigate HMS Serapis taunted him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, refused to give up. When two cannons exploded and his ship began sinking, John PaulContinue reading “Amazing John Paul Jones”

The Bible Says: Psalm 51:6 “You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part you will make me know wisdom.” Are you debating whether or not to talk to God about a certain concern? Are there burdens weighing you down because you’re afraid to give them over to Him? Do they seemContinue reading “An Open Heart”