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The Spanish Armada
When King Phillip II of Spain decided to get back at the English for kicking him off the “throne” once his wife (the true queen) died, he didn’t count on smaller, swifter, more maneuverable English ships (and a helluva storm) to squash his invasion plans. Once the remains of the Spanish Armada went limping back (if ships can limp, after all) to Spain, the English/British began their ascent as the leaders of the European colonial expansion.
As early as February 5, 1783, Lafayette made it overwhelmingly clear in a letter to Washington that his idol couldn’t evade this touchy subject: ‘Permit me to propose a plan to you which might become greatly beneficial to the black part of mankind. Let us unite in purchasing a small estate where we may try the experiment to free the Negroes and use them only as tenants.’ As he pointed out, Washington’s sterling reputation could make this revolutionary act 'general practice’ in the United States. As impulsive as Washington was cautious, Lafayette gloried in his iconoclasm. 'If it be a wild scheme,’ he maintained, 'I had rather be mad that way than to be thought wise on the other tack.’ Lafayette’s abolitionism may have been influenced by his wartime association with James Armistead, a slave who served under him in Virginia and operated as a valuable spy, infiltrating the British lines under the guise of being an escaped slave.
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, pp. 485-486 (via marq-de-laf)
Abolitionism: A gradual, and dawning revolution.
A grenadier of the 26th Continental Infantry 1776. The "GW" on the cap stands for George Washington. By Don Troiani.
GW: Future POTUS#1
The 32 gun French frigate "Belle Poule" opening fire against the British frigate "Arethusa", June 1778 - the encounter that plunged Britain and France into War, by Derek G.M Gardner
anyway i put the founding fathers through that new face app and i’m ???
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Almost seems a bit sacrilegious to share this, but.... nah.... Enjoy. I’m sure they smiled!
Plate by H. A. Ogden.
What types of troops (specifically British) participated in the 7 Years War, specifically in the colonies? I mean grenadiers, Rogers Rangers, etc. Do you have any reference pictures of them?
Not sure if you mean types or specific regiments? If we’re talking “types” then just about all variations of soldier in the 18th century British military fought in North America during the Seven Years War;
Line infantry - these consisted of both British regiments and Provincial American colonial regiments. They also included grenadier companies — these were sometimes formed into composite grenadier battalions, but generally fought as part of their parent regiment. From 1757 light infantry also started to be used, including fully dedicated light infantry battalions like the 80th Regument.
Cavalry - not many cavalry regiments served in North America, and those that did were light cavalry, generally light dragoons.
Artillery - again there was very little heavy field artillery in North America (though there were heavy siege guns). Most cannons were between 3 and 9 pounders. British artillery of this period actually fell under the duristiction of the Board of Ordinance rather than the two British Army Establishments.
Marines - technically falling under the duristiction of the Royal Navy, but they occasion supplemented land forced it launched coastal attacks.
Militia - these were colonists who defended and rarely left Britain’s North American colonies.
Rangers - these were groups of frontier colonists who were experts in wilderness warfare and raiding.
Native Americans - most Natives stayed neutral or aided the French in the Seven Years War, but something tribes sent their warriors to assist the British and their colonists.
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Don't forget!
In memory of millions of lives exterminated...
Jews, sick people, handicapped people, kids, homosexuals, political dissidents, Sinti and Roma...
millions of innocent people...
We must never forget this, we must learn from it and we must all fight for it, so that something like this can never happen again!
" You are not responsible for what happened.
But that it won't happen again, for that you are! "
This famous sentence by Max Mannheimer, a survivor of the extermination camps Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and Dachau.
He died in 2016 at the age of 96 years.
Before that , he had spent many years visiting schools to educate kids and teenagers about the Holocaust and to report about his time in the concentration camps.
And there is no need to add any more to this sentence
Malignant Nationalism rises up in a multitude of disguises. We must all be aware of what is happening even in our own countries.
#Repost @gratitude.everyday ・・・ #tbt to our vacation at Colonial Williamsburg. Loved the printer and bookbinder. #gratitude #gratitudeeveryday https://ift.tt/30IuqM0
On April 21, 1789, John Adams took the oath of office to become the first Vice President of the United States. Over the next twelve years, John and Abigail Adams followed the...
In each city, they formed an official household, hosted family members, welcomed guests, and hired a staff of servants to maintain the home. George Washington and the Virginians that follow Adams in office owned enslaved chefs, lady’s maids, valets, coachmen, or postilions that they brought to the President’s House and forced to labor without pay.
Adams did not own enslaved people. Instead, the Adamses hired white and free African-American workers to provide these services. However, that did not mean that they avoided slavery altogether.
While the Adamses opposed slavery both morally and politically, they tolerated the practice in their daily lives and they may have hired out enslaved African Americans, paying wages to their owners, to work in the Vice President’s and President’s House.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1797, wherein he writes, “This House has been a scene of the most scandalous Drunkenness and Disorder among the servants, that ever I heard of. I would not have one of them for any Consideration.” I also like his sentence: “The Beds and Bedding are in a woeful Pickle.”
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January 21, 1757: Rogers’ Rangers’ first battle on snowshoes, not too far from French Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga. Art by Gary Zaboly.
French and Indian War, a.k.a. Seven Year’s War.
Why I don’t wish to jettison my identity as an Evangelical.
I consider myself a fairly progressive Christian. I’m not a fundamentalist by any means. Yet despite the conservative, nationalistic, basically bellicose movement of so-called Evangelicals in America today—that 80% of Evangelicals that proudly voted for and continue to support Donald Trump as President—I nonetheless don’t want to concede the identity or term Evangelical to those people. Even as a progressive Christian, I consider myself an Evangelical as I understand the meaning and root of the word “evangel.” The evangel or euangelion literally meant “good news.” The prefix eu- in Greek means “good” as in the idea of a eulogy in which good words are said about a person who has died. JRR Tolkien coined a word: eucatastrophe or “Good Catastrophe” to capture the sublime power and reality of the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus: Something so good, so salvific that it occurred with catastrophic effects destroying the power of death, and upending the reign of evil. I think of the evangel, or gospel of Jesus, as this. In this way, for me, authentic evangelicalism aligns itself with Jesus Christ Who came to lift up humans—all humans, not just white straight Americans—and save them from brokenness, rebellion, addictions, selfishness, pride, arrogance and their love of money (to name a few things). Moreover, Jesus came to save us for genuine compassionate works of mercy: feeding the hungry, clothing the ill-clothed, loving and protecting the young, supporting the marginalized in society, including those with sexual or gender identities not of the majority.
I don’t know why or how many (perhaps the majority) of people calling themselves evangelicals in America can support Donald Trump, or allege that he was or will be the “Christian candidate.” I was relieved to read the December 19th editorial by Mark Galli published on ChristianityToday.com in which he called for the removal of Donald Trump from the Presidency on grounds of his profound, continuing and unrepentant immoral and unethical behaviors. Galli expressed my concerns with the current climate. In answer to the current political and religious situation in America, it seems to me that the 80% Evangelical majority supporting Trump are not actually being “evangelical” in doing so, but really are supporting and believing in a type of American Civil Religion, and are imagining it as “evangelical.” When I studied history at Willamette University some 40 years ago, I read a book by Robert Bellah (The Broken Covenant) that explained what is meant by an American Civil Religion. An article from ChristianityToday.com explains the term:
In his seminal 1967 essay, sociologist Robert Bellah argued that the United States had "an elaborate and well-instituted civil religion," which existed "alongside of" and was "rather clearly differentiated from the churches." Also known as civic piety, religious nationalism, public religion, and the common faith, civil religion provides a religious sanction for the political order and a divine justification of and support for civic society and a nation's practices. It is the "state's use of consensus religious sentiments, concepts, and symbols for its own purposes." "As a system of established rituals, symbols, values, norms, and allegiances," civil religion functions as a social glue to bind people together and "give them an overarching sense of spiritual unity."
Civil religion involves beliefs (but no formal creed), events that seem to reveal God's purposes (most notably the American Revolution and the Civil War), prophets (especially Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln), sacred places (shrines to Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt; Bunker Hill; and Gettysburg), sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address), ceremonies (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veterans' Day celebrations, and the pageantry of presidential inaugurals), hymns ("God Bless America" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), and rituals (prayers at public events such as inaugurals and the beginnings of sessions of Congress and national days of prayer). By presiding over the nation's rituals and reaffirming its creeds, presidents have served as the prophets and priests of this civil religion. They have employed civil religion to unite Americans and to frame and win support for specific policies. ```https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-99/civil-religion-in-america.html
This employment of civil religion is being used by the Trump administration, and many within the Republican party to manipulate power and push through policies deemed “Christian.” It should be noted that many within the Democrat party use a different form of civil religion, at times, for their own purposes as well, although I would assert that in our current political climate the use of a particularly nationalistic, exclusive form of civil religion is being promoted by the self-proclaimed “sent from heaven” president. The issue of an American Civil Religion (ACR) goes back in history to the arrival and purposed immigration of the Puritans: to set up a society that would be a “city on a hill” for all the world to see. This way of looking at America borrows the idea of the chosen nation of Israel from the O.T. and applies it to our nation. Along with that transference of identity: America = Israel, came the Joshua texts, etc. that condoned the slaughter and annihilation of the Canaanites and other tribes of the region. The Puritans applied it to their relationships with most of the Native Tribes, and were able to justify the whole sale genocide of the Pequot Tribe in 1637 likening it to the cleansing of the land of Israel of false religions, etc. This sense of being special, and therefore a higher position in the world, is the essence of “Make America Great Again.” MAGA=ACR And modern day Evangelicals are falling hook, line and sinker with this formula, claiming it is biblical. But it is a misapplication/ misappropriation of Old Testament texts and images utterly devoid of the gospel and other New Testament stories of grace and humility.
Well, that’s what I’ve got for now. Blessings on you all.
Map of Middle Earth over one of Beleriand.
For those of you versed in Third Age Middle-earth stories such as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but have not yet (Eru Iluvatar forbid) delved into the First Age tales of Beren and Luthien, the Fall of Gondolin, and The Children of Hurin, -- Eldar and Edain friendly texts-- the blue colored lands of Beleriand are covered with water, or basically annihilated following the overthrow of Morgoth/Melkor Bauglir. Thought you should know.
Note from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, 1/15/1793.
File Unit: January - February, 1793, 1/1/1793 - 2/28/1793. Series: Letters Received, 1789 - 1906. Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002.
Learn more about this document on National Archives Founders Online.
Christopher Tolkien, third son of J.R.R. Tolkien and editor of much of his posthumous work, including The Silmarillion, has died at age 95. Thank you for bringing your father’s vision to life through your work. Rest in peace.
I have been reading Beren and Luthien, Christopher Tolkien’s final editing of his father’s works. Thank you for furthering your father’s genius with your own genius and respect for your father’s mythical Vision.
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming ‘sub-creator’ and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic ‘progress’ leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
@ciceroprofacto and I had a chance to visit the Steuben Memorial State Historic Site on 1/3/20. Here’s the site description from the park website:
The Steuben Memorial honors the “Drillmaster of the American Revolution,” Baron von Steuben, whose valuable wartime services have been described as being second in importance only to those of George Washington. In 1777, Steuben volunteered his services to Benjamin Franklin to advise the ill-trained American army. At Valley Forge, he converted the ragged, starving army into an effective fighting force. His program greatly increased the morale and strengthened the army. He authored the “Blue Book,” which still remains a basic reference for military training and organization. After the war, Congress granted von Steuben a life annuity and New York State deeded him a large parcel of land in appreciation for his wartime contributions. He summered on his land in a two-room log house until his death in November 1794. Although in his will he requested an unmarked grave, in 1804, his remains were transferred to what is now known as the “Sacred Grove.” Today a plain, but large monument marks Baron von Steuben’s final resting place.
I live just a few hours from the area and have been meaning to visit it for a while, and I was glad we were finally able to make the trip and pay our respects at Steuben’s grave and memorial.
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