Breitbart: This year, the Ides of March marks the 236th anniversary of one of the most important — yet widely unknown — battles of the American Revolution: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, Robert Kirkwood and his men lined up facing the Redcoats, including the dreaded Banastre Tarleton, a cavalry officer known for his ruthlessness. A light breeze carried the sound of fifes and Highlander pipes across the field in front of the county courthouse. With blood dripping from his sword, the Patriot cavalry officer, Light Horse Harry Lee, father of General Robert E. Lee, delivered a stirring address to prepare his men for battle: “My brave boys, your lands, your lives and your country depend on your conduct this day – I have given Tarleton hell this morning, and I will give him more of it before night.”
Forming the front line, hand-picked members of Kirkwood’s Delaware Blues, flanked by militia and cavalry, stared across the rain-soaked, recently plowed cornfield at the “scarlet uniforms, burnished armor, and banners floating in the breeze” as Cornwallis’s army assembled in formation more than four hundred yards in front of them. In the damp, cold morning air, the Americans took their carefully plotted positions in the defense and prepared for what proved to be one of the most crucial battles of the war. read more
Image above via Guilford Battleground Company
Best thing I’ve read all week. In the movie “The Patriot” the same tactics were used. Interesting.
Those were some brave mofos.
I wish I cared more about the history of our country but I just don’t.
I was a math major and that’s what I care about.
I have never met a republican in the field of mathematics.
So I have to hide my political viewpoints
OK gun freaks help me out here. I’ve always even taught, and read, that the big advantage the Americans had over the Brits was a “Rifled Barrel”. Accurate to 300 yards. Just did a google search and came up with nothing
1+1,
Wow, am I calling Bull shit on that one. Conservatives are logical. Mathamaticians are forced to be by their discipline. You must be one of those new common core math scholars.
1+1,
I’ll money your still in school. Because you can’t cut it in the real world.
“I have never met a republican in the field of mathematics”
You should visit Raytheon Missile and Space in Tucson. You can meet an entire herd of them. All conservatives, all brave enough to jump into the private sector.
1+1, why don’t you pack up your abacus and slide rule and gtf out of this country? Those who don’t know where they’ve been have no idea where they are, or where there are going.
If you can’t be bothered to be moved by the sacrifices of those who make your soft, pathetic life possible, you don’t deserve to be here.
OK 1+1, that was an impressive start.
@BBrad ~ as a rule, the Continental Army used mostly the French Charleville 1763 smooth bore musket or the British ‘Brown Bess’ smooth bore. the Militia, in many instances used the rifled bore Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle, but due to the fact that they didn’t have a bayonet, in the open terrain of a lot of Revolutionary battles, their effectiveness became limited
couple of links …
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/rifled-muskets-during-the-american-revolution.9805/
http://www.historycarper.com/1982/05/01/the-continental-army-chapter-i/ (at the bottom, chapter 7, second paragraph)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infantry_weapons_in_the_American_Revolution (listed under ‘Long Rifles’)
I think what 1+1 etc. is saying that he is a Republican, but also a nerd who doesn’t care about history, only math. Now to me that’s better than a Dimocrat Liberal who cares about the history of his country, so I am inclined to cut him a bit of slack on the history part. Not everybody can be as well-rounded as they should be.
The brits were defeated because they wore red and marched towards the gun fire instead of hiding behind a tree.
Vietvet
Mathamatics is a discipline. Liberal have no discipline and no logic. The statement “I’ve never met a conservative mathematicians” leads me to believe he’s cleaning toilets at some major university. I’m no math major but I depend on it hourly. He’s got some serious explaining to do.
My wife and I are taking a short vacation in Charleston, SC.This was where the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, harassed Cornwallis. William Moultrie was his commander for a while. He his unit fought along side Nathaniel Greene’s Green Mountain Boy’s. I visited and walked about the USS Laffee destroyer and the Yorktown aircraft carrier. I could have spent all day on either ship. The people are understandable proud of the military tradition here.
@Anonymous March 15, 2017 at 10:46 pm
> If you can’t be bothered to be moved by the sacrifices of those who make your soft, pathetic life possible, you don’t deserve to be here.
So, reparations, or whitey go home?
I didn’t say there aren’t any conservative mathematicians I said I have never met any.
Sorry to rile everyone up.
I’m retired by the way, in my 70’s.
1+1,
Review my statements about RMS. They actually apply what they’ve learned. If your a conservative I’m 200 percent behind you.
@1+1 etc
Welcome. Answer these questions 2:
Q: “At what point do officials say “Enough”?”
Q: “At what point do AMERICANS say “Enough”?
OT,
Just got an email from my ex shop forman. He’s back in Texas now. Full disclosure, I might have turned him into a total asshole. I did my best. Where was I? Oh yea, his e mail. “Just got kicked out of my anger management class, fuck those guys”. Hell yea.
@1+1 etc.: You’ll have to excuse some of the commenters on this blog. A few have itchy trigger fingers, and they are liable to interpret any ill-considered remarks as being Liberal in nature. I know this because I have inadvertently set off a few land mines in the past, and I’m as Conservative as they come.
P.S. – I’m retired and in my 70’s too. Welcome to IOTWR.
Vietvet, ahh, so you can’t explain or justify that remark, neither can he. Please enlighten us.
That was my Uncle who was a professor of Mathematics in the Boston area.
He came from Poland and doesn’t care about anything but Mathematics.
He is visiting my wife and I.
He wanted to know what I was wasting my time at today.
If your not doing mathematics your wasting your time.
I showed him the website I was reading and I asked him if he would like to comment about the American Revolution.
So he did.
He has been annoying since the first time I met him.
He really is serious about mathematics.
We bonded one time when I went to the range and he wanted to figure out how bullets did what they did mathematically.
Buy the way he chose the name 1+1 etc.
my whole family is like this.
Morris Sabin and my uncle The Mathematician
1+1, it’s late, I’m tired. Can’t tell you how many edjimicated mofo’s I’ve hired that couldn’t get a part off a machine. It’s one thing nowing It, A whole different thing applying it. Good night
@Bad_Brad: See there? It was all just a big misunderstanding. We got trolled by a Pole. Kinda funny, no?
🙂
@1+1 etc.: Your uncle sounds like a cool guy. Tell him to research one of his fellow countrymen, Casimir Pulaski, who was a hero in the American Revolution. There’s a fort named after him in Savannah, Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski
🙂
My forefather rode in the militia with Sumter. He was
a Hessian deserter that was brought down with Cornwallis for
the Southern campaign. It’s a very interesting portion of the
family period.
From my readings, “The Patriot” is a mix of true stories
from about three different militia leaders. Nat Greene, and Sumter
being two of them.
@ VietVet – And Tadeuz Kosciuszko at Valley Forge as well.
What’s sad is that Delaware has become such a liberal shithole that the vast majority of its citizens today are an embarassment to the glorious past of the First State and its Fighting Blue Hen regiment which was so dear to Gen. Washington.
1+1 still ain’t explained his original statement…
“I wish I cared more about the history of our country but I just don’t”
what? Poland? USA?
“I was a math major and that’s what I care about”
so why comment here, on a US history thread?
“I have never met a republican in the field of mathematics”
???? WTF??? … don’t get out much, do you?
“So I have to hide my political viewpoints”
guess that’s what happens when you only hang out with demonRats … in mathematics, of course.
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ: Go back and read his post at 12:40 am, and all will be revealed.
(Spoiler alert: It wasn’t him, it was his uncle, just messing with you.)
🙂