From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 3 18:32:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 946AE37B8CB for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 139 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2000 01:32:22 -0000 Received: from du136.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.136) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 2000 01:32:22 -0000 Message-ID: <38E945ED.8FC1F4FE@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:31:25 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] References: <200004032256.PAA28790@sgi523.lmms.lmco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Spiegel wrote: > > Gates?!?!? that paper shuffler was hiding in his tent when > the battle took place. Benedict Arnold, the later infamous > traitor, became famous for leading the colonists to victory > at Saratoga. > > And the troops he led were overwhelmingly MILITIA. > > Washington explicitly called for the militia to turn back > Bourgoyne because he couldn't spare more than the corps of > sharpshooters he did send. These few and whatever stragglers > there were from the loss of Fort Ticonderoga were the only > army regulars. Can you point me to a good OB for the battle? The sources I checked are pretty vague, but suggest that the militia was in the minority. The sources could be wrong, or I could be misinterpreting them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message