A little story for ya, I had that insurance once, I was also arrested for drunk driving on a tractor, on my own G’damn property by the dnr/greenshirts, the fire break gives the dnr access, it’s still my land, I wasn’t drunk, I was having a beer, a PBR to be exact, a 12 pack missing 3 beers. I won’t go into the details of that situation. Insurance people found out, and whammo, cancelled the next day. In court, the prosecutor tried liked hell to take points. Judge asked what was I doin 10;30 at night, I was digging a hole like for a root cellar. Then I added, you’re honor, does not the law state, a tractor falls under the Implement of Husbandry? “yes” well since anyone can drive a tractor as long they can reach the pedals, no driver’s license is required, . Judge said, that’s true, looking the persecutor, looks back at me… (you can see he’s thinkin stuff), Mr.so an so, lhis is what we’re going to do, no tractor driving between the hours of 10 pm and 7am understand, Yes Sir. He left the courtroom,walking by the persecutor’s table, I smiled with added, fuckyou.
I’ll show you a good neighbor, I call him Mr. America
the Bald Eagle
About that root cellar, betcha you didn’t know, John Wick to, has a root cellar
The Battle of Golden Hill as depicted in a 19th Century etching.
As George Grenville’s ministry came to an end with the repeal of the hated “Stamp Act”, William Pitt (Lord Chatham) was called to form a new ministry. One of the people he brought to his ministry was the English dandy, Charles Townshend who became the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the British Treasury department).
Townshend claimed to have a plan that would create an income stream the colonies would accept and soften the tax burden that rested on the landed gentry of England. This sounded good to the heavily taxed squires but Townshend did not readily produce his plan driving the squires to believe Townshend could not actually give them the tax relief they were expecting.
When “Champagne Charley” did produce his plan, it called for Parliament to place taxes on glass, paint, paper and tea and gave colonial courts the right to issue “Writs of Assistance” to customs officers to search for contraband and smuggled goods on private property.
Beginning in 1767 Townshend unveiled his long awaited plan that included 4 separate parts, “The Revenue Act of 1767, the Commissioners of Customs Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act of 1767, the New York Restraining Act of 1767, and the Admiralty Court Act of 1768”.
The purpose of the 4 acts were,
To raise a revenue in the colonies to pay colonial governors and judges so they would remain loyal to Great Britain;
Enforce compliance with trade regulations;
Punish New York for not enforcing the Quartering Act of 1765;
Maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.
Before the Townshend Duties as they were known could be fully initiated, Townshend unexpectedly died at age 42 in September of 1767. Repeal of the Townshend Acts officially occurred on April 12, 1770 with the exception that the tax on tea was continued.
“The Revenue Act of 1767” included language for the removal of the “power of the purse” from the colonial legislatures, giving the revenue raised by the act to pay colonial governors and judges for fealty to the British Crown. This deprived the colonials of any kind of leverage or control over the governors and judges in the colonies.
The “Quartering Act of 1765” set the stage for the suspension of the New York Legislature. This act further inflamed the colonials thereby driving even more acts of overt civil disobedience. Rather than direct conflict, the New York assembly simply voted to allocate 1,500 pounds for the British troops by way of a grant, making it appear as a free gift rather than compliance with the Quartering Act. This was a stealthy act of civil disobedience that the English Parliament accepted as compliance to the act instead of retaliating against the colony of New York which would have only exacerbated an already overheated situation.
Raising of the Liberty Pole. The Liberty Pole was erected in “The Fields,” the town common, today’s City Hall Park in New York. It was the center point of the friction between the Sons of Liberty and the British Soldiery in that city.
The “Battle of Golden Hill” on January 19, 1770 would mark the first skirmish between British Troops and American patriots as British troops tried to post handbills in a New York Market. Some sources claimed that an American died but was never confirmed, but it is the first clash between Americans and members of the British Army in what would eventually be “The American Revolution”.
Colonial newspapers were very effective in rousing the rural population to support the “Non-Importation Act”, a pact the colonial assemblies were able to enact in August of 1768 that restricted the import of finished English goods into the colonies. The plight of Ireland and the resulting level of poverty that Parliament’s actions caused the Irish commoner were all the rural Americans needed for them to see the results of British domination. The continuing threat of British troops to enforce colonial acceptance of Parliamentary rule was a deciding factor for many American farmers to support the Non-Importation Act
The arrival of four regiments of British troops in Boston in October of 1768 only reinforced the fear of troop intervention for the purpose of colonial taxation. The lack of total support for the acts of Parliament by its own members did little for the merchants of England, but the removal of two regiments from Boston in 1769 to Halifax gave the farmers the courage to no longer strongly support the Non-Importation Act and by August of 1770, died from lack of rural support.
By this policy of enacting and then rescinding acts of force the British Parliament undermined its own authority in the colonies. The forces that remained in Boston were too few to truly keep order. Numerous scuffles and other acts of civil disobedience and defiance by Boston civilians continued; the inevitable happened on the evening of March 5, 1770 as British troops fired on American patriots killing 5 and wounding 6 others in what would be called “The Boston Massacre”.
In a strange twist of affairs, John Adams, who would be the Second President of the United States defended some of the British soldiers and their commanding officer in the aftermath of the “Boston Massacre”.
Authors note: American patriots were called Whigs and Revolutionaries while the supporters of the Crown were called Tories and Loyalists.
Have a closet full of the finest suits, drive the most expensive car or how about having attended some of best schools, no; well that kinda narrows a bit don’t it. I tried being civilized, don’t know you know this, everyone in Boston sounds related to the Kennedy clan. Wasn’t just me who didn’t fit well, this fella from Kneebraska, he’s the one who threw the ROTTED steak at the dumbwaiter window where the chef was hiding behind in this rather fancy restaurant. I was busy gagging at the smell while Mr. Kneebraska doing his thing. If you are interested rotted meat, here ya go:
13 Best Aged Steaks in Boston for an “Unforgettable Dining Experience”.
They be right about that FFS
Let’s check in on the Civilized shall we
Where is Mayor Karen Bass, you ask? She was in Ghana on a tax-payer funded junket while her city burned, refusing to address the crisis or even acknowledge the displaced victims upon her return.
To top it off, the LA City Council has spent the last two years diverting a significant portion of the firefighting budget—and even equipment—to Ukraine, leaving their own city woefully unprepared for this disaster.
This isn’t negligence; it’s a betrayal. And according to a WEF insider, its all by design and there is much worse to come.
The globalist war on our health went into overdrive with the Covid plandemic, and now the elite have reached the next phase of their long heralded plan.
In the occult beliefs held by the elite, fire is seen as a force of purification.
Fire and blood sacrifices have been performed for Moloch across various civilizations for centuries. Thanks to WikiLeaks emails, we know Hillary Clinton performed one in her back garden in 2016.
This dark occult practice was also mentioned in the Bible. Jeremiah chapter nineteen verse five reads: “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal–something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.”
The ancient practice of blood sacrifices hasn’t disappeared—it’s evolved.
Once, children were sacrificed to Baal in ancient Carthage, but now, in the age of mass media, the occult elite stages massive rituals designed to be witnessed by the entire world.
Why? To amplify their magickal potency and increase their power over humanity.
The LA wildfires are part of this plot against humanity, according to a WEF insider who warns that 2025 will be a year of carnage and chaos, and while you might think the year has started with a bang.
You have not seen anything yet.
Not long ago bringing smithy his leather stuff he needed for his knives, I asked if he was civilized, looking at me he says
” Chance, do I look civilized to you”.
Looks Swede to me man (safe answer)
Asked him how he got into Blacksmithing ” I got anger issues, beating the shit outta iron helps”, You been married how long “23 years, same Woman”
don’t she help keep you calm
” ya, keeps me outta jail too.
Dog don’t eat Rotted meat, having no teeth in the mouth, one long piece of venison jerky lasts way longer then if he had teeth.
Andrew Jackson leading US forces at the Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans encompassed a number of actions beginning in 1814 culminating in January 1815. We will examine these actions and some of the individuals involved.
The War of 1812 began as a result of British interference with US trade and the impressment of US citizens. A declaration of war would pit the fledgling US against the world’s premier military. The British fielded a Navy that dominated the seas and an Army that could contend with Napoleon. The declaration set in motion a series of events that would forever change history. It is the culmination of this war and the events that preceded it that we will examine.
A series of devastating defeats plagued the Americans in the early months of the war but a naval victory on Lake Erie September 10, 1813 by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry followed by a bloodied but victorious Army at Lundy’s Lane July 25, 1814 temporarily stunned the British. Admiral Cochrane began his Chesapeake campaign that resulted in the disaster ever known as the Bladensburg Races and the burning of the capitol including the White House by Admiral Cockburn and General Ross August 24; the failure of Cochrane’s naval bombardment to defeat the forces at Ft. McHenry under the command of Major George Armistead and the death of General Robert Ross ended the Battle of Baltimore (September 12-15, 1814) and the end of Admiral Cochrane’s Chesapeake campaign.
On September 3, 1814 a British Naval envoy, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer visited Jean Lafitte at Barataria and offered emoluments to Lafitte and his men should they join his forces in capturing the city of New Orleans. Lafitte to his honor sent the message to American authorities, making it known that the city was the target of invasion. Lafitte offered to help in the defense of the city for the release of his brother Pierre, Dominique You, Renato Beluche and others of his associates being held on piracy charges.
September 3rd was also the date of Lt. General Sir George Prevost’s advance down the west coast of Lake Champlain in an attempt to gain as much American territory as possible before any treaty was ratified to end the war. Control of Lake Champlain was vital as a supply line, but a plucky US Navy Lt. by the name of Thomas Macdonough defeated the British naval force under the command of Captain George Downey at Plattsburg on September 11, 1814 forcing the British to return to their bases in Canada.
The British secret campaign (that turned out to not be so secret) to wrest New Orleans from the Americans, to close the Mississippi, drive all settlers back across the Appalachian chain and return the lands from the crest of the Appalachians to the Mississippi to the Indian tribes was about to unravel. The brainchild of Lord Robert Castlereagh, it would include an end to fishing rights on the Grand Banks, allow no US Naval forces on the Great Lakes and a surrender of much of the Louisiana Purchase; to be conducted under an “Uti Possidentis” claim to retain all lands and territories under their command at the end of hostilities.
Andrew Jackson and Red Eagle after the Battle of Horseshoe bend.
The massacre at Fort Mims August 30, 1813, would bring “Andy” Jackson and his Army into the fray and with the defeat of the Creek Nation at Horse Shoe Bend March 27, 1814 would thwart the British effort to bring several Native American Tribes to an alliance with British forces. Further restricting the aims of the British would be Jackson’s capture of Mobile September 13, 1814 and Pensacola November 7, 1814 barring an overland route to New Orleans. These three actions severely reduced Jackson’s supply of powder and flints for rifles as well as ammunition for his artillery.
Major General Andrew Jackson arrived in the city of New Orleans December 1, 1814 to find a city in near panic and disarray. He was met By Edward Livingston, an old friend from Jackson’s days in the congress. As head of the committee for the defense of New Orleans, Livingston was indispensable as an unofficial aide de camp to Jackson, was his channel to Governor Claiborne and was instrumental in arranging a meeting between Jackson and Jean Lafitte. Initially Jackson bristled at the suggestion that he deal with Lafitte whom he called a pirate.
Included in Jackson’s staff was Major Arsene Lacarriere Latour, a former French military engineer with extensive experience and superb map-making skills. Together they toured the possible avenues of attack, made troop assignments and decided where to build fortifications. When Major Howell Tatum queried about a water table that precluded the digging of trenches and the construction of defenses, the doughty little major replied, “with engineering ingenuity my dear major”.
L-R: Edward Livingston, Arsene Lacarriere Latour, Commodore Daniel Patterson
The sea lakes that border New Orleans were the obvious choice to facilitate an attack on the city. Commodore Daniel Patterson ordered a small armada of gun boats to defend the lakes. Jackson placed the Mississippi Dragoons (a cavalry troop that fought as infantrymen) under Major Thomas Hinds and a contingent of Choctaw warriors under Pierre Juzan to be the eyes and ears on the Plain of Gentilly, a route that could afford the British a level field with little to no obstructions. This was in Jackson’s words “the front door” and asked Latour if there was a “back door”.
The ‘back door’ as Major Latour defined it was a narrow stretch of land approximately 800 yards wide with the Mississippi River on one side and cypress swamps on the east side. The land was cut with drainage canals that allowed flood water to be drained from the fields into the bayous. It was these bayous with their connection to Lake Borgne that concerned Jackson and he ordered that they be closed by falling cypress trees into the bayous.
Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane arrived off the Louisiana coast December 9, 1814 with 60 British ships and nearly 14,500 sailors and soldiers. The invasion plans called for the forces to be landed on an island in Lake Borgne. Blocking entry into Lake Borgne was a small flotilla of gun boats under the command of Lt. Thomas Jones, US Navy.
Admiral Cochrane
The British pitted over 40 long boats outfitted with small cannon, the attendant crew and 40 sailors or marines per boat as oarsmen and boarders against Lt. Jones and his becalmed boats. Unable to maneuver, outnumbered, outgunned and wounded in the battle that ensued, Lt. Jones’ small American force surrendered on December 14 to the British leaving open the entry to Lake Borgne and Jackson with no eyes on the British fleet.
Loss of eyes on the Lakes forced Jackson to reconsider Lafitte’s offer of ammunition and flints in exchange for pardons for his men. In the ensuing agreement Jean Lafitte would return to Barataria to be Jackson’s eyes on the Gulf; Pierre, Jean’s older brother was released and became Jackson’s aide because of his extensive knowledge of the area and possibly as a guarantee against treachery. Recognized for their gunnery skills and appointed captains, Dominique You and Renato Beluche commanded and organized artillery units manned by the released Baratarians.
General Keane established a garrison on Pea Island and began to explore the cypress swamps for any avenue to advance closer to the city. British scouts discovered that Bayou Bienvenu was not blocked as the other bayous had been.
Near the bayous entry into Lake Borgne was a small village of Spanish fisherman. Bribed by the British, one of the fishermen guided the British to the camp of a small detachment of Louisiana militia. Without firing a shot the British captured the small detachment including Major Gabriel Villere. The canal that drained the Villere Plantation drained first into Bayou Mazant then connected with Bayou Bienvenu.
The British led by the fisherman arrived on the east bank of the Mississippi taking command of the Villere Plantation. General Keane established a camp only 9 miles south of the city with some 1,800 British troops on the morning of December 23rd. Later that day an escaped and embarrassed Major Villere reported to General Jackson; informed of the British encroachment, an angry Jackson is said to have exclaimed, “By the Eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil” and promptly gathered forces to attack the British Camp.
In a surprise attack that evening (called the Fight in the Dark) the Americans would forestall any further advance by the British. General Keane, somewhat unnerved by the ferocity of the attack made the fateful decision to await reinforcements before advancing. It can be argued that Jackson’s decision to attack Keane’s forces and the resulting delays may have saved the city and doomed the British.
USS Carolina by Keith Wilkie
As the British settled in on that first evening, the USS Carolina began shelling the camp just as General Jack Coffee’s Tennesseans attacked the opposite side of the camp. “The Battle in the Dark” was under way. After the initial shock the British were able to recover, the battle became a bitter hand to hand affair. Unable to rout and drive his enemy away; Jackson pulled his troops back behind the Rodriguez Canal to await the eventual British advance.
Ongoing harassment by Jackson’s sharpshooters and stealthy raids by the Choctaw warriors would keep the British Camp in turmoil. General Pakenham would complain in a letter to Jackson that killing his sentries in the dark was ungentlemanly to which Jackson replied that they would use all means necessary against the invaders. The British would be harassed and hampered until they vacated all troops from Louisiana on January 18, 1815.
Part of the attack on the British camp was carried out by the USS Carolina and for three days and nights continued to harass and bombard the British camp. Unbeknownst to the Captain of the Carolina, heavy guns from the fleet arrived in General Keane’s camp December 26, the next morning, the 27th; British gunners repeatedly hit the schooner with heated shot. The big guns out ranged the smaller guns of the Carolina. The heated shot started numerous small fires that quickly spread. Unable to subdue the fires the ship was ordered abandoned; when the fires reached the magazine, the USS Carolina blew up.
The “engineering ingenuity” of Major Latour oversaw the transformation of the Rodriguez Canal from a simple drainage canal to a fortified position known as “The Jackson Line” while the British sought to bolster its forces. Composed of soil and mud with a log facing, the line gave protection to Jackson’s troops while presenting an obstacle of the drainage canal of up to 8 feet deep and 15 feet wide showcased Major Latour’s sample of “engineering ingenuity”. Artillery was spaced along the line, tasked with silencing the British guns and to ravage the British infantry with shot, shell and grape shot.
Sir Edward Pakenham
On December 28, Major General Sir Edward Pakenham ordered a ”Grand Reconnaissance”, The indecision when confronted with the canal and its unknown depth would bring the British to pause. The withering fire from the line and the cannon began to take a toll. Pakenham called off the affair and the British withdrew. Had they persevered in the advance in the cypress swamp, they would have turned Jackson’s flank when the militia withdrew from their positions. An angry General Jackson would replace the militia with General William Carroll’s Kentucky and General Jack Coffee’s Tennessee troops, and place more cannon on the line.
Pakenham was not satisfied with the position his army had been placed in and wanted to change the plan of attack. As a result he would clash with Admiral Cochrane but an outranked Pakenham would have to fight on the ground they now held. Cochrane knew of the efforts to produce a treaty with its “Uti Possidentis” clause and felt that time was of the essence. The die was cast, Pakenham would play the hand he was dealt.
General Pakenham and his staff planned a three prong attack utilizing nearly 5,500 men and a reserve of about 4,500. A force of 1,400 under Colonel Thornton would cross the river and attack the gun emplacements of Commodore Patterson across from Jackson’s main position. Meanwhile General Keane would strike the end of the line next to the river and General Gibbs would skirt the cypress swamp and attack what appeared to be a lower, thus vulnerable part of the line. A Creole deserter by the name of Galvez told the British that particular segment of the line was manned by militia. Convinced that the American militia could be routed and then flank the guns, the British were confident of success.
A series of blunders plagued the British on that fateful day, January 8, 1815. General Jackson was awakened at 1:00 AM with a request for additional manpower from the militia commander General Morgan across the river. Convinced that the attack was coming on his side of the river, he refused the request, roused his staff and awaited the British. General Morgan began to align his 800 men to help defend Commodore Patterson’s guns. By 4:00 AM General Adair moved his Kentucky militia to within 50 yards of the line as reinforcement.
For starters the canal was too shallow to float the heavily laden boats, dragged through the mud and way behind schedule, plus a lack of boats forced Thornton to go with just 500 men; a strong current carried his force 1,000 yards further downstream than planned. Although successful in routing the militia defending the guns with 300 men but lacking the manpower necessary to carry out the main objective of turning the guns on the “Jackson Line”; Thornton pulled his men back to a position of safety to await the rest of his men. They attacked the Commodore’s sailors and marines manning the batteries. Seeing they were to be over-run, General Morgan and Commodore Patterson spiked their guns and pulled back.
Thornton had accomplished his mission but it had little effect on the outcome as the battle on Jackson’s side of the river was ending.
In a predawn fog, the British General Pakenham began to marshal his forces. Hearing no sounds of engagement from Thornton’s force across the river and Patterson’s guns raking General Keane’s troops; Pakenham ordered a change. Instead of General Keane following up Colonel Robert Rennie’s attack on the line, he was to move his force to join that of General Gibbs. As a consequence, Colonel Rennie’s initial success went unsupported and was thrown back.
Map of the New Orleans Battleground
Visibility improved as the fog lifted, the American guns began to thunder when the British were at 600 yards. Disaster strikes when Lt, Colonel Thomas Mullins, charged with bringing the ladders and fascines to facilitate crossing the canal and climbing the parapet, forgets the location and marches his man past where they were stored. He sent 300 of his men back to retrieve the needed articles, only a few actually made it back to the canal in the ensuing confusion. As the British push forward, at 400 yards some of the marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee militia units begin to take down officers and sergeants. At 300 yards many more began to shoot, relays of men on the firing line; fire, fall back and reload, 4 men in each relay taking careful aim at the advancing British.
The cannon charged with grape shot tore huge swaths through the columns of British infantry and the aimed rifle fire began to take its toll as the leaderless and confused troops faltered at the canal. Unable to advance, they were at the mercy of the rifles and the cannon. General Keane was wounded in the move to support General Gibbs.
The troops bringing up the fascines and ladders faltered and many never made it to the front. Gibbs and Pakenham were both killed by grapeshot. The aimed rifle fire and the anti-personnel loads of grape shot from the cannon decimated the British troops. At that point General Lambert assumed command and ordered his reserve troops to support a withdrawal of the Army from the field.
When the firing stopped the carnage became visible, the ground carpeted in the red of British uniforms. In a time span of 25 minutes, the British dream of “Uti Possidentis” and control of the American continent came crashing down in a sea of red. General Jackson’s initial report put the British losses at 700 killed, 1400 wounded and 500 captured for a total of 2600 men; these numbers would be corrected later.
The British side of the ledger looked bad and would only get worse. The Creole deserter Galvez would be hung by the British, they thought him a spy.
An angry Admiral Cochrane, still determined to take the city of New Orleans began to assault Ft. St. Philip guarding the mouth of the Mississippi January 9; ten days of bombardment convinced Cochrane that his efforts were futile and withdrew January 18.
General Lambert held a council of war with his officers and decided that the cost of capturing New Orleans was too costly with the chance of total defeat should they try. By January 19 the British camp on the Villere Plantation was evacuated and the fleet set sail for Mobile Bay February 4, 1815.
February 12th the British attacked and captured Fort Bowyer at the mouth of Mobile Bay. News of the Treaty of Ghent arrived the next day; the treaty called for the return of military gains to each other. Shortly thereafter the British abandoned Fort Bowyer and set sail for their base in Jamaica.
British casualties for the campaign, 386 killed, 1,521 wounded and 552 missing or captured for a total of 2,459.
Lt. Col. Mullins would face excoriation and reprimand for his failure to fulfill his task by having the fascines and ladders to the front in a timely manner.
General Pakenham had secret orders that he was not to stop military actions against the American’s until he received verification that the American President had signed the treaty. Had Pakenham been successful in capturing New Orleans the British government was willing to refute the terms of the Treaty of Ghent and impose the harsh conditions advocated by Lord Castlereagh under a claim of “Uti Possidentis”.
The American ledger by contrast looked bright; General Jackson would recognize the meritorious action of several, including Major Latour, Colonel Hinds and his “Troop of Horse”, the Lafitte brothers, Captains You and Beluche among others. Major Villere faced severe charges for his failure to follow orders, but his action in the battle made up for his shortcomings. In February of 1815, President James Madison signed pardons for the Baratarians.
The war would force the US government to the realization that the need for a standing army was just as necessary as a strong navy. James Monroe would continue these policies.
Much of Colonial America breathed a sigh of relief at the news that the Stamp Act of 1765 was repealed; but the more radical elements in America saw the falsehood it revealed as the Declaratory Act attached to the repeal was read. King George demanded the Declaratory Act be part of the agreement that repealed the Stamp Act. James Otis and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina realized the dangers this act contained. It declared that the colonies were as bound by Parliaments regulations as the citizens of England. The act closely mirrored the Declaratory Act of 1719 as was applied to Ireland. (The American Colonies Act of 1766 was the official name of the Declaratory Act applied to the American Colonies as part of the repeal of the Stamp Act)
The “Mutiny Act of 1765” was another sore that the colonies found to be untenable as it allowed soldiers to be quartered in private homes. Contrary to the widely held belief, it was not the work of George Grenville, but that of officers due to the lack of barracks to house the soldiers who were posted in colonial seaports. The repeal of this act due to stiff colonial resistance did little to soothe the colonials as they believed it was a ministerial effort to relieve them of their liberty.
19th century painting of British soldiers quartering in a colonists home. Artist Unknown.
Colonial America declared the right to self acts of taxation; Parliament replied that the colonies were represented as they all had agents that represented the individual colonies. To this the colonies replied, yes, we have agents that represent each colony, that the agents could petition and even address Parliament individually, but they could not vote on any legislation that was to be applied to the colonies. To this argument the Parliament turned a deaf ear referring to the Declaratory Act as their right to act for the colonies. This only pushed the more vocal members of the colonial assemblies to deny Parliament the right to act for the colonies in any legislation.
To add insult to injury, the Anglican Church began to demand that they be allowed to levy and demand tithes be paid to the Church of England. This was an affront to all the diverse sects that existed in Colonial America even as the Roman Catholic Church was allowed to resurface in England. The call for an American Bishop to the Anglican Church not only angered the other religious groups in America, but brought out the denial of any church to be the recognized religion of the American colonies.
One of the more stark differences between the English citizenry and Colonial America was the lack of extreme poverty in the colonies. Travelers to the colonies saw the standard of living especially in the southern colonies often rivaled the more affluent members of English society. To the English eye this was an effort on the part of the Americans to state that they were on an equal footing with the English. The colonies were viewed as inferior workmen whose place in society was to furnish England with raw materials and referred to the colonies as “our colonies”. To this many colonials said, “It was not the sweat of the English brow that made the colonies what they are” and were offended that the claim of colonial ownership by England and by extension that the Americans were essentially “degenerate Englishmen”.
High street in Philadelphia from 9th Street 1799, drawn, engraved and published by W. Birch & son
To state that the colonies did not have supporters in England would not give due recognition to many. A number of radicals in England adopted a conciliatory attitude towards the Americans, John Wilkes, John Horn Tooke, Joseph Preistly, Richard Price and Catherine Macaulay among others were sympathetic to the colonial cause. But King George the 3rd and his ministers ruled England and it was their official attitude that the colonies were to be under the rule of Parliament. They contended that the colonies had been protected from foreign incursions by way of the British Army and Navy, therefore they owed fealty to the British Crown.
General Thomas Gage’s stubborn support for the Stamp Act was reflected in his statement,” I think it would be for our own interest to keep the settlers within reach of the Sea-Coast as long as we can and to cramp their Trade as far as it can be done prudentially”. By contrast, Lord Camden (Charles Pratt, first Earl of Camden) prophetically stated, “It is impossible that this petty island can continue in dependence that mighty continent, increasing daily in numbers and in strength. To protract the time of separation to a distant day is all that can be hoped for”.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden
The peace that many on both sides of the Atlantic desired was not to be. The colonials were not yet ready to seek separation from England, but neither were they ready to allow Parliament the right to tax the colonies unless some kind of reconciliation could be found. A power sharing agreement had some Englishmen thinking along the lines of an Imperial Federation. This would resolve many of the disagreements that kept the two parties apart, but this too was not to be.
In an Imperial Federation, America would be on an equal footing with England. This chafed many Englishmen as they were not able to accept the idea that the colonies were anything more than British property and the Americans could not and would not accept secondary citizenship within the Empirical Federation. Hope for the Imperial Federation evaporated as the colonies imposed a boycott of English manufactured goods with the “Nonimportation Agreement of 1768”.
The impasse between England and Colonial America would continue.
Since that nickname is taken, you cannot call me that, try this
Some lake news
She’s out there today busting ice while you landlubbers are enjoying the constant day time dramas like Edge of Fright, Days of our Death, General fuckup, All my fuckups.
A crew of 50
USS Mackinaw, her screws can rotate 180 degrees, get up on ice, back off the ice,
Yaknow how they say (whoever the hell “they” is) the first step is the hardest, no it’s not
it’s that step just before your testicles touch the water in summer
current surface temperature in the front yard, I see we’re having some globul warming happening
January 7, 2025
today temp
38.8°F
January 6, 2025
yesterday temp
38.7°F
President Trump, you really should bring me onboard, acquiring the Canadaland is NOT in the best interest of America, How’s that European Union doin, crumbling, so but sure, was time an idea was being bantered around, America needed to counter-balance, inserts some Canada lingo that I learnt from my cousins in the Thunderbay
“Didgi” you know they had a coin printed for setting up some G’damn GLOBILST’S dream of one world order Canada, Mexico and United States
Mr. President, I can understand Iceland, you being a real estate guy, and Panama, that’s OURS, if not mistaken, some 38,000 Americans died digging that trench out, but Canada, that’s a hard pass Sir.
Not sure how, but these 2 pictures seem to fit well together
Ohh I know, it’s a societal thingy
2 Ladies doing something ice-skating or dancing is like a normal item,
2 guys, umm no, just no
tosses in a exception, unless they be drunk on their asses at a wedding reception or aboard some Navy ship that’s been out on water to long, then it’s ok
This is Josh Weldon, he’s famous for saying
” Someone trying to kill you, you kill’em right back”
Here he is making a lady smile, showing of her Happiness
There was a sick joke going around, how Branch Davidians could you fit into David’s ashtray?
93
Joggin the ole noggin here
The FBI knew in advance the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) & were tipped off by the local sheriff. 53 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the LV shooter had huge weapons stashes (Paddock). 60 dead. 800 injured.
The “kidnapping” of the Michigan Governor plan was set up by FBI.
The FBI knew in advance the Charleston church shooter (Dylann Roof). 9 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the San Bernardino Terrorists (Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik). 14 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the Sandy Hook shooter (Adam Lanza). 26 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. 3 dead, hundreds injured.
The FBI knew in advance the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). 17 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan). 13 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the Boulder Colorado shooter (Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa). 10 dead.
The FBI knew in advance the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi).
The FBI knew in advance of 9/11 that terrorists were training in US flight schools. 2,977 dead.
The FBI suppressed a massive amount of evidence concerning McVeigh’s accomplices of the Oklahoma bombing. 168 dead.
The FBI knew in advance that the Nashville bomber was building bombs (Anthony Quinn Warner).
The FBI entrapped General Flynn.
The FBI FISA abuse collusion on Trump.
The FBI knew in advance and facilitated 1/6.
The FBI and CIA is a terrorist organization weaponized against its own countrymen.
That mosque in Houston, they must be special
The FBI didn’t show up to the NOLA suspect’s address until 1pm today. We were on scene before. No one came out of the home or answered the door.
And to make matters even worse, as we mentioned earlier, the New York Post actually beat the feds to the terrorist’s house. The FBI didn’t bother to show up until around 1 p.m. What were they doing in the meantime—chasing down grandparents who attended the January 6th rally nearly four years ago?
New York Post reporter Jeannie Taer took to X (formerly Twitter) to call out the disgraced agency in no uncertain terms.
The FBI will relentlessly hunt down non-violent January 6 attendees with the fire of a thousand suns, yet when it comes to actual terrorists mowing down and shooting innocent Americans, they seem to yawn and lollygag their way to critical scenes.
Gramma’s imprisoned for praying and singing songs near an abortion mill but that mosque is a no go zone for the fbi
want fingerprints, check the USURPER’S
when islam is in the minority they play victim, when in the majority, islam suppresses the minority
Featured image: Procession in New York opposing the Stamp Act, depicted in a hand-colored woodcut.
How it all began… Part 3
The furor raised by the Stamp Act was almost universal in the colonies. The Stamp Act was designed and implemented by Minister George Glenville. While the Trade and Navigation Acts affected the more affluent people, the Stamp Act in effect reached all levels of the colonial society.
This was never more evident than the reaction to the passage Patrick Henry’s “Virginia Resolves”, May 29, 1765. Virginia governor Fauquier decided not to recall the House of Burgesses for fear that to do so would add fuel to an already turbulent situation even though the Burgesses only passed 4 of Henry’s 7 resolves.
Period anti-stamp act propaganda.
Newspapers of the time printed all 7 resolves as if the entire body of resolves were passed by the House of Burgesses. This resulted in many calling the resolves treason as did James Otis of Massachusetts, Alexander McDougall and John Morin Scott of New York. Scott would later become one of the most radical of the “Sons of Liberty”.
Many colonial citizens found themselves in accord with the resolves as they expressed the feelings of many colonials but were afraid to voice their opinion. While the Trade and Navigation Acts did not solidify colonial opposition, the Stamp Act galvanized the feelings of most colonials. Instead of driving a wedge between the more affluent colonials and the more common man, the Stamp Act gave them a reason to stand united in opposition to the heavy handed actions of the English Parliament.
Engraving of a Stamp Tax Protest in New Hampshire in which a Stamp Tax collector was burned in effigy.
Colonial opposition boiled over and spread terror among the Officers of the Crown and their Stamp Agents to the effect that most of the Stamp Agents renounced their commission to avoid being targeted by the colonial citizenry. This was not a plebian reaction, but one that was supported and directed by many of the more wealthy men of the colonies. (Plebian; the common people)
James Otis swore that the two main architects of the Stamp Act were Massachusetts’ own Thomas Hutchison and Andrew Oliver, two of the most prominent men in Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin tried without success to foil the passage of the Stamp Act, but was resigned to its passage. Franklin’s friend John Hughes was appointed a Stamp Agent at Franklin’s request, but was later forced to resign his commission. This did little to enhance Franklin’s popularity in Pennsylvania but he was eventually forgiven for his actions after his return to America.
Thomas Hutchinson, L; Andrew Oliver, R
James Otis proposed a Stamp Act Congress be held in New York in October, 1765 to solidify colonial opposition to the Stamp Act. Conservative infighting would doom the congress to inactivity and several of the delegates would later lose their seat in the colonial legislative bodies. After the demise of the Stamp Act Congress, Otis would beg Americans to stop rioting and petition Parliament and the Crown to stop before America fell into “painful Scenes of Tumult, Confusion and Distress”.
There is little reason to doubt, had Great Britain tried to use force to impose the Stamp Act, as Ben Franklin said, “a British Army would not have found a rebellion in the American colonies in 1765 but it would have made one.” Resistance to the Stamp Act was so strong that some patriots declared they would “fight up to their knees in blood” if Britain tried to force imposition of the hated act.
The weakness of British forces in America at the time forced the British to decline to act against the fury of the American colonies. Many conservatives asked that Parliament be given the time and opportunity to repeal the act in order to fend off the possibility of armed resistance to British Troops trying to force adoption of the Stamp Act.
In order to blunt the Stamp Act, Americans began to boycott English products; coupled with the riots the act prompted many in England to conclude that a full-blown rebellion was under way in the colonies. This would force many English merchants to fear a collapse of the British economy; it was this fear that set the much of the merchant class to support the repeal of the Stamp Act.
Not all Britons favored repealing the act, among the most violently opposed was the Bedford Party, also known as the “Bloomsbury Gang”. They favored using arms against the Americans in order to force the colonials to accept the act. They suggested that all charters of the colonies be abolished, force the colonial assemblies to be replaced with more amenable colonial citizens and spill the blood of the more rebellious in order that the colonies accept ALL acts by Parliament. In the eyes of the Bedford’s, to butcher all Americans that did not bow down to the English Parliament was the most expedient way to end the controversy.
Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd Marquis of Rockingham
The replacement of Minister George Grenville by the Marquis of Rockingham (Charles Watson-Wentworth) in July, 1765 set the stage for Rockingham’s ministry to begin the repeal of the Stamp Act. A series of strongly worded petitions began to flood Parliament as the merchant class began to see the effects of the Stamp Act as a major loss of trade in the American colonies. The layoff of many workers in the English factories began to spell a danger to the peace and tranquility of the manufacturing centers of England. The merchants claimed repeal of the Stamp Act was needed to bring prosperity back to England.
The Stamp Act was officially repealed March 18, 1766 and the Declaratory Act was enacted as part of the repeal. The Declaratory Act stated that Parliament’s authority was the same in Britain as well as the American colonies; that Parliament’s authority to pass legislation was as binding in America as it was in Britain. In the colonies, James Otis, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry saw the act as a way to deny colonial rights of “NO Taxation Without Representation”. Although the Declaratory Act passed the English Parliament, no bill of taxation against the American colonies ever came to pass.
Sips coffee, with a new year upon us… We all have pasts. we all made choices that weren’t maybe the best ones. None of us are completely innocent but, we all get a fresh start every day to be a better person than we were yesterday, so make it count.
You may notice the church in Foy from the film Band of Brothers
Vinny Speranza along with his 501st Airbourne Division were surrounded by the Germans in
Vinny’s friend was hit in both legs by shrapnel, being cared for in the church, his asked Vinny for some beer.
There is another doctor at Bastogne, from his journal/diary
Medical Detachment 20th Armored Infantry Battalion APO 260, US Army 1 January 1945
There was an angel at Bastogne, Renee Bernadette Lemaire, she wanted a parachute to fashion a wedding dress, instead it became her burial shroud.
This girl, a registered nurse in the country of Belgium, volunteered her services at the aid station, 20th Armored Infantry Battalion in Bastogne, Belgium, 21 December, 1944. At this time the station was holding about 150 patients since the city was encircled by enemy forces and evacuation was impossible. Many of these patients were seriously injured and in great need of immediate nursing attention. This girl cheerfully accepted the herculean task and worked without adequate rest or food until the night of her untimely death on 24 December, 1944. She changed dressings, fed patients unable to feed themselves, gave out medications, bathed and made the patients more comfortable, and was of great assistance in the administration of plasma and other professional duties. Her very presence among those wounded men seemed to be an inspiration to those whose morale had declined from prolonged suffering. On the night of December 24 the building in which Renee Lemaire was working was scored with a direct hit by an enemy bomber. She, together with those whom she was caring for so diligently, were instantly killed.
It is on these grounds that I recommend the highest award possible to one, who though not a member of the armed forces of the United States, was of invaluable assistance to us.
Sips coffee… and think that G’damn Mike Johnson’s deciding vote has sent more money to those G’damn nazis in the Ukraine.
I have others who stand in your stead, you set the example for them to follow Warren, helping another who could not swim.
Kept close to the heart, they never really have gone, just in another room, the story of Pearl, we know all it
it’s a story that has to be remembered and passed down. Something else that generation did, they showed the world America could outwork and produce quality products even with just a high school diploma. These two I’m having issues with, wanting foreigners to do jobs Americans can do, and do better
that’s not being MAGA
Makes one wonder who they been hanging out with
Cheap labor + shuddy results = the bottom-line. That old Frigidaire in the basement at house, you heard it, purrin like a kitten, still, she needs some enamel work some maintenance on the motor, more for safety reasons than anything else. It’ll be working long after I’m gone and that’s the point, so people understand why we called them the Greatest generation. And something else G’damnit, all over the house there are phones that still work!
