This Fourth of July, Put American Pride and Patriotism on Full Display

From one Anglophile (my wife is dual US-UK) to another, a small nit – it is Magna Carta, not the Magna Carta. Just like it is Messiah, not the Messiah. Althoug, it can be Handel’s Messiah.

In the end the British command thought and fought by the rules of the traditional military fashion of the time. He who controls the field of battle in the end wins. The colonists just wouldn’t quit. They’ed run from the field when things turned against them and come back to fight another day in another place. The British took the ground but they never destroyed their opponents and so, though they won most of the battles, they lost the war.

The French didn’t leave America. Ever hear of Quebec? Or Louisiana? Or the several French colonies in the Caribbean?

Most of the fighting men engaged in the American theater of the global Seven Years War between France and England were actually not British soldiers, but American militias and confederated Indian tribes.

The suppression of the British colonies in America was not to “pay for the French and Indian War”, as the British pretended it to be. Primarily the American Revolution was the result of competition from Britain’s Caribbean sugar growers, who took over a majority of Parliament via the purchase of “rotten boroughs” – in other words, via rank corruption by rich British sugar growers who were fearful that the American colonies were outstripping them economically – which of course they were – and so being in control of Parliament they made a decided policy of taxing the Anerican colonies and, much more harmful, also restricting the Americans’ commerce with other nations who were anxious to trade with the Americans. Parliament required Americans to only sell their goods at low fixed prices to Britons, and forced Americans to only purchase British goods at highly inflated prices and in many instances poor quality.

In other words, British greed and corruption were the primary cause of the American Revolution.

And of course, as soon as the Americans won our Revolutionary War, the Caribbean sugar growers lost much of their power, which is what a couple decades later resulted in the final dagger in their collective hearts – the outlawing by Parliament of the slave trade .. followed still later by the Parliament outlawing the institution of slavery itself in the British colonies and throughout the entire world.

Uh, Lee L. , The majority of the forces that did that were the American colonists. One of the more notable units was Rogers Rangers but there were many others from all the colonies that served in uniform for the Crown and they outnumbered British regulars in the fights to oust the French and kill or subdue their Indian allies.

BTW if we were going to thank any country for helping us gain our independence it would be France. When one includes the blockading French fleet, there were more Frenchmen at Yorktown than Colonials and militia.

Now back to Rogers Rangers. The leader of that 600 man unit was Robert Rodgers. To establish SOPs and discipline he wrote “Rogers Rules for Ranging.” To this day an abbreviated and adapted version Rogers rules appears on the inside cover of the US Army Rangers Handbook. The fundamentals of Infantry patrolling are still the same as they were when Rogers wrote his rules in 1789. Here they are:

1. Don’t forget nothing.
2. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute’s warning.
3. When you are on the march, act the way you would if you were sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
4. Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the rangers, but don’t never lie to a ranger or officer.
5. Don’t never take a chance you don’t have to.
6. When we’re on march we march single file, far enough apart so no one shot can go through two men.
7. If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it’s hard to track us.
8. When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
9. When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
10. If we take prisoners, we keep ‘em separate till we have time to examine them, so they can’t cook up a story between ‘em.
11. Don’t ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won’t be ambushed.
12. No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear, so the main body can’t be surprised and wiped out.
13. Every night you’ll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
14. Don’t sit down to eat without posting sentries.
15. Don’t sleep beyond dawn. Dawn’s when the French and Indians attack.
16. Don’t cross a river at a regular ford.
17. If somebody’s trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
18. Don’t stand up when the enemy’s coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.
19. Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch. Then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.

Hi Tom,
I am curious to know exactly what illegal activities you think President Obama, Hilary Clinton and the democrats are guilty of. I mean it wouldn’t be anything like paying off a prostitute about an alleged affair or meeting with Russians to try and get information about the opposition and then lying about it to the FBI would it?

As for whether or not Trump was innocent Mueller himself said that firstly the Justice department prohibits the prosecution of a sitting president and therefore he could no indict him. Secondly he stated “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,”

But while Mueller may not have found any evidence that Trump associates conspired with Russia to interfere in the election, they nonetheless had a lot of contact with Russians leading up to Election Day. In fact, investigators have found that Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisors had more than 100 contacts with Russians, belying the campaign’s November 2016 claim that “there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”

https://time.com/5572821/donald-trump-russia-contacts/