From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 1 1:34:19 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 859E937BABB for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 01:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 21213 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2000 09:34:12 -0000 Received: from du09.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.9) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 2000 09:34:12 -0000 Message-ID: <38E5C25F.38D021E0@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:33:19 -0500 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: <200003312153.NAA20741@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: > > Not true. When the British attempted to split the Colonies in > two down the Hudson Valley, it was the locals and their rifles > who defeated Bourgoyne's (sp?) Army, as it tried to move > from Montreal to British-held NYC. Gates's army was made up of Continentals. There were militia present, but the core of the army was regulars. Of course, the militia played a significant part in harassing the British communications prior to the battle. > This battle was decisive as it convinced the French king to > back the American revolution. He had been reluctant to supply > support because he didn't want the embarrassment of having > backed a loser. > > Since the Colonies had negligible, if not non-existent, > weapons manufacturing capabilities, getting French help > was extremely important. Not to mention French naval support, which alone made possible the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message