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Light Horse Harry Lee was a true hero of the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, many people really don’t know too much about him…

Interesting note: he graduated from Princeton at the ripe old age of seventeen!

Lee joined the Continental Army in 1777, and became a great help to General Washington. During the winter at Valley Forge, Lee and his detachment of light cavalry harassed the British continuously. Lee had a knack for ambushing British supply trains, and was key source of provisions during that brutal winter.  Eventually, the British got fed up with his activities and decided to mete out some justice.

The British high command sent out a troop of 200 light cavalry. These men succeeded in trapping Lee and seven of his men inside a house, but Lee and his small force fought valiantly and successfully held them off. This action so impressed General Washington, that he offered Lee a position as his aide-de-camp, but Lee declined the offer by telling Washington, ”I am wedded to my sword.”

Lee and his men gained further notoriety by executing a secret night attack on the British fort at Paulus Hook. Lee and had some of his men pretend to be selling supplies to get the British to open the gate, then he and the rest of his force attacked. They succeeded in capturing the fort and taking many prisoners, but had to retreat in the face of overwhelming British reinforcements.

Lee was nearly court-martialed  by jealous superior officers after the action at Paulus Hook, but thanks to General Washington’s support, the charges were dropped. In recognition of his bravery, the Continental Congress awarded Lee, then a Major, with a Gold Medal. Lee was the only officer below the rank of General to receive such an award during the war.

Lee went on to serve with distinction throughout the war, especially in the southern theater, until after Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown. After the surrender, Lee retired from the army in order to get married.

After the war, Lee fell on financial hard time, and even spent some time in debtor’s prison, but he should still be remembered as one of the true heroes of the Revolutionary War.

His influence on the course of American history was not limited only to the Revolutionary War period, however. Perhaps the greatest impact Light Horse Harry Lee had on our nations history was the son he left behind. Light Horse Harry Lee’s youngest son, a son he had almost no contact with, was none other than the future Commander of the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee…

Despite Sean Hannity’s inability to say her name, Dana Loesch shone in her appearance on his show on the twentieth…

…calling out Obama on the fact that sequestration was his idea, and the fact the refused a Republican offer that would have allowed him to avoid the sequester.

Also in this clip, see what federal funds are going to, including human/elephant conflict resolution and the invasion of the privacy of ducks. True story…

See it all here:

That’ll be all ’till next time…

Hey, so I said that most of my posts would probably be about history related stuff right?  Well, I thought I’d start off with a selection of interesting facts from the American Civil War.  So, here goes…

Did you know?

• There was a general in the Union Army named Jefferson Davis (the Confederate President’s name), and a private in the Confederate Army named Abraham Lincoln (the Union President’s name).
• The same company (American Bank Note Company) printed both US greenbacks and Confederate money during the Civil War.
• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had 29 different horses shot out  from under him throughout the duration of the Civil War.
• At the Battle of Shiloh, wounded soldiers who were left on the battlefield overnight reported that their wounds glowed in the dark.
• One man, Wilmer McLean, lived in the area of the first battle of the Civil War (First Bull Run), and then moved to the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where Lee and Grant met to negotiate Lee’s surrender, In Wilmer’s house!
• Famed explorer and journalist Henry M. Stanley (the guy who found Dr. Livingston in Africa and said “Dr. Livingston I Presume?”) served in the Confederate Army, Union Army, and Union Navy during the Civil War.
• Union General Daniel Sickles donated his amputated leg to a museum, and was known to go visit it on occasion.
• Sickles was also the first person to successfully use “temporary insanity” as a defense for murder when he was on trial for killing the man who had an affair with his wife.
• Future President Rutherford B. Hayes was a Union General during the Civil War, and was wounded on a number of different occasions.
• Confederate General John Brown Gordon was shot five times during the Battle of Antietam before he finally passed out and was carried from the field.

…and that’s just a taste of the interesting things that went on during the American Civil War.  Just wait till I get started on Ancient Rome or World War II or the Middle Ages or…

Basically, what I am saying is, I enjoy history, and I’m going to try to show you the interesting things from history that make me enjoy it so much…

Well maybe me coming back isn’t that big a deal to anyone else in the world, but its kind of a big deal to me. I really enjoyed working on this blog and like most things we enjoy it got pushed to the back burner when I got busy last fall with classes and other things I had going on.

Anyway, today I heard a political ad on the radio that cracked me up; and I thought to myself, “Self, you need to get yourself in gear and start posting some stuff on that awesome blog of yours…”  Myself clearly has a very grandiose opinion of the quality of this blog, but it was a good idea nonetheless.  So this evening I have been trying to get stuff back in order.  Here is what I have found so far:

• Spam commenters have had a field day in my absence…
• I haven’t written anything in a really long time (September 24, 2011)…
• Passwords to SM accounts are hard to remember if not written down, good thing I don’t listen to experts on that …
• I have spammers out the wazoo…
• It’s been a really, really, really, really long time since I have written anything…
• Spammers really, really suck!

I think I covered everything there?!?!

Anyway, the point is I’m back and I’m going to try to do this right this time.  So we will see how that goes…

What, you may be asking yourself, could inspire someone to come back from a near eleven month hiatus?

That is a great question, and I’m glad you asked!

Well here it is: Claire McCaskill’s ham-handed attempt to influence the republican primary for her US Senate seat from here in Missouri.  There are three candidates: John Brunner, Todd Akin, and Sarah Steelman.  In the interest of full disclosure, I prefer John Brunner, but will be more than happy to support whoever wins the primary in the effort to get rid of Claire.  However, apparently Claire wants to run against Mr. Akin… I’m not sure why but I’m pretty sure its true… Why?  Because while she is running ho-hum attack ads against the other two candidates she is attacking Todd Akin for being “too conservative“…

Thats like saying a girl is “too hot” there is no such thing!

The ad informs us that Todd Akin wants to “privatize social security” … THE HORROR!!!

Not only that the ad identifies him as a “crusader against big government” … LORD DELIVER US!!!

Heres  the ad, take a look for yourself…

One thing that was in the radio ad I heard that did not appear in this TV ad was the quote that “Todd Akin believes in a free market economy, not government programs.” Well, that is just way too conservative… God forbid we actually have free market in this country again!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Liberals make me laugh…

Here is another man carrying the same message that Kamal Saleem has for America, Wake Up!

His name is Simon Deng; and as a nine year old boy he was taken into slavery by Muslims from northern Sudan because he was a Christian from southern Sudan.  He was given by one Muslim to another as a gift.  Imagine being given by a fellow human being as a gift.  Mr. Deng also points out that slavery continues in Sudan right now, and is kept alive by radical Islam and Sharia law.

Mr. Deng goes on to say that now as an American he is saddened to see radical Islam coming to his new country, and he is speaking out to warn America that it must wake up before it is too late.  This video was recorded at a rally for Rifqa Bary, who was running from her Muslim parents in fear for her life, because she had converted to Christianity.  Here is quote she gave during an interview shortly after fleeing her family:

I ran away from home. I wrote my parents a note, I said, I refuse to deny Jesus and He’s my Lord and Savior and I pray you find His forgiveness and mercy and I love them both dearly. I wrote that, but they never showed it to the police officers. They want me back home, I can’t go back to Ohio, you guys don’t understand. That community, they’re like – I will die within a week. My life is at stake. My dad threatened me. I was ready to die

I found this at Atlas Shrugged, and this is just one example of the spread of radical Islam in America.  Simon Deng and Kamal Saleem are very right when they say it is time for America to wake up.

This man knows what he is talking about because he has lived it. Go look at this video to see him discuss more living under sharia law and in fear of jihad. In this video he mentions the fact 3.5 million Sudanese Christians have been killed by Muslims for being infidels since the mid 1950s.

The above quote was taken from an emotional interview given by Rifqa Bary shortly after running away from her parents.  Here is the video from that interview, if you have not heard her story before I encourage you to learn more about it and the courageous stand this young woman took.

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Clearly Islam is “The Religion of Peace.”

These videos have brought to mind another video I have posted in the past, and I think it is worth sharing again.  This video is basically an hour long, but the key part that I want you to see is the first seven minutes or so; in this, Kamal Saleem brings out that Islam is taking over Europe “without firing a shot.”   He also shows how current trends will lead to a similar situation here in America.

It is time for America to WAKE UP.