From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 3 19:14:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DD337B698 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.spiegel@lmco.com) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21549; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:13:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) id <0FSG00101ZJ8TX@lmco.com>; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi523.lmms.lmco.com ([129.197.11.229]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) with ESMTP id <0FSG008DSZJ65Q@lmco.com>; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from spiegel@localhost) by sgi523.lmms.lmco.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA29538; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: mark.spiegel@lmco.com (Mark Spiegel) Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] In-reply-to: ; from "Thomas M. Sommers" at Apr 3, 100 6:32 pm To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tms2@mail.ptd.net Message-id: <200004040213.TAA29538@sgi523.lmms.lmco.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] 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 : > Burgoyne 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? http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/episode4.html The broadcast has a greater amount of information than the site. It seems to be replayed every so often, or you can buy VHS tapes from the site. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message