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Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] re: George W.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:24:32 -0500




On Sat, 19 May 2001 08:56:01 EDT writes:
> Thinking about GW....he was in a family of "planters". Just an
> ordinary sort
> of guy in the beginning. He fought in the very first battles of the
>
> French-Indian War where his military career began. That would be c.
> 1754 or
> a little before. He helped out (don't know the military term) Genl.
>
> Braddock...didn't he get a couple of horses shot out from
> underneath?? Then
> he was famous for speaking against England.....an activist of the
> first sort.
> GW was Commander in Chief of the Continental Army....c. 1775...not
> good on
> dates. Then the American Revolution was in full swing...and GW was
> the guy
> that made Cornwallis surrender.....HOORAH!!! (watch the movie
> Patriot).
>
> Hope this helps a bit.....I'm a math major (egads!) and didn't do
> all that
> well in history, but every now and then I get a flash!
>
> *paulette* (but now an artist) in Sunny Florida
> researching: Tanner-Wilkins-Newton-Glover
>
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