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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on December 17, 2012, 05:17:49 PM
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Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:52 PM
nadinbrzezinski (113,420 posts)
Larry Pratt...
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No you twitt if you are going to speak about the militia saving us from the Brits, at least get the gun right, Kentucky long riffle, not Brown Bess.
And as far as New Orleans and Jackson, the backbone of the force were regulars.
They don't even got their myths right.
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There's more wrong in that post hen a 7 year old trying to talk about Einsteins theories.
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Larry Pratt is a twitt!
It was a Kentucky long riffle!
What in hell is she talking about?
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And as far as New Orleans and Jackson, the backbone of the force were regulars.
Well, that sure destroys all those impressions I had, reading so many long books about the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
<<back to school, to learn history.
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Well, that sure destroys all those impressions I had, reading so many long books about the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
<<back to school, to learn history.
It was slaves that won The Battle of New Orleans. Tthey picked the cotton that Jackson and his men hid behind while loading their AK-47's.....and the alligator. Haven't you ever heard Johnny Horton's song?
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I was thinking that Lafitte's (sp?) pirates would probably be considered the backbone before the regulars. From what I remember of history the regulars at the Battle of New Orleans didn't make up a large part of the American force. Am I wrong?
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I was thinking that Lafitte's (sp?) pirates would probably be considered the backbone before the regulars. From what I remember of history the regulars at the Battle of New Orleans didn't make up a large part of the American force. Am I wrong?
Nope, you're not wrong.
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Larry Pratt is a twitt!
It was a Kentucky long riffle!
What in hell is she talking about?
In myth about the American Revolution the colonials fought off the British with minutemen armed with hunting rifles.
The emblem of the National Guard pays tribute to that myth.
Really the dwarf needs to talk about the French Musket- the official arm of the Continental Army
"Large numbers of Charleville Model 1763 and 1766 muskets were imported into the United States from France during the American Revolution, due in large part to the influence of Marquis de Lafayette.[5] The Charleville 1766 heavily influenced the design of the Springfield Musket of 1795."
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There's more wrong in that post hen a 7 year old trying to talk about Einsteins theories.
Starting with "Kentucky long 'riffle'"....they were Pennsylvania long "riffles"....(http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/hammer.gif)
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Nor was the long rifle the principal weapon of the Continentals or the American militia, whose local armories were stocked with British milsurp weapons, mainly consisting of the Brown Bess (And of course the French-supplied arms later, mainly the Charleville musket). The long rifle was a hunter's gun, the 'Deadly sniper rifle' of its day, used some by sharpshooters but not by infantry formations. Rifles were too slow to load to use in mass infantry formations, and due to the relative frailness of the stock and the lack of any provision for a bayonet, pretty useless in the line infantry tactics of the day. It's the long rifle thing that is the myth.
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They had to use riffles. Pisstolls were very ineffective.
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They had to use riffles. Pisstolls were very ineffective.
I thought they used cannnons.
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I thought they used cannnons.
Good thing it wasn't canons, 'cause that would have violated the First Amendment years before it was even written.
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Riffles have ridges.
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I was thinking that Lafitte's (sp?) pirates would probably be considered the backbone before the regulars. From what I remember of history the regulars at the Battle of New Orleans didn't make up a large part of the American force. Am I wrong?
100% correct. Lafitte's shop (http://www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com/Homepage.html) is still standing in New Orleans.
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They had to use riffles. Pisstolls were very ineffective.
Made me LOL. H5.
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And even in another thread (and probably several more), she spouts this incoherent "riffle" stuff. The record player's stuck (but I date myself).
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And even in another thread (and probably several more), she spouts this incoherent "riffle" stuff. The record player's stuck (but I date myself).
I think she corrects the auto-correct with what her trained orthographist mind tells her the correct spelling is.
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I think she corrects the auto-correct with what her trained orthographist mind tells her the correct spelling is.
Other DUmp monkiez are now picking up the spelling...