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re: 236 Years Ago Today, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown & the American Revolution was won
Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:47 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:47 am to GetCocky11
“Get the hell out.”
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Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:47 am to GetCocky11
I will be showing the "Patriot" to my world history class in a few weeks. 
Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:48 am to GetCocky11
About 50 weeks ago, America squandered what we won at Yorktown by electing tRump.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:49 am to Steauxn
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And now we have kneelers.
Who stand for "God save the Queen"
Posted on 10/19/17 at 9:57 am to WHS
Good thing the French crown made that investment in us, if effectively bankrupted the crown and France who was already in a food shortage amid a population boom. Louis XVI was a most ineffective and unpopular king, the last king before the French Revolution began, but that was the best thing he did by far.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:02 am to The Cool No 9
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Good thing the French crown made that investment in us, if effectively bankrupted the crown and France who was already in a food shortage amid a population boom. Louis XVI was a most ineffective and unpopular king, the last king before the French Revolution began, but that was the best thing he did by far.
Our French alliance in the Revolution would end up leading to some real troubling political moments during the French Revolution.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:04 am to Yellerhammer5
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“Get the hell out.”
I doubt Rochambeau said that.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:10 am to Darth_Vader
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Bottom line, without France, we'd still be British subjects.
No. We wouldn't.
Without France the war would have extended into a perpetual guerrilla conflict that we would have won within a couple of decades. We wouldn't be British Subjects 200 years later.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:11 am to GetCocky11
Yorktown is awesome. Driving the battlefield tour gives one a sense of what it was like. Amazing in its own right. The Victory Center is a must see!
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:12 am to WHS
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Who stand for "God save the Queen"
They do what the left tells them to do like good little robots.
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 10:25 am
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:27 am to GetCocky11
thankfully the French did most of the work
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:30 am to Spaceman Spiff
Heh, heh...Cornwallis. - Typical response by my 7th grade students.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:32 am to WHS
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I will be showing the "Patriot" to my world history class in a few weeks
Please tell me you're joking.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:34 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:38 am to celltech1981
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thankfully the French did most of the work
Blockade.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 10:40 am to Martini
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And now we have Libtards shitting on everything they accomplished.
FIFY
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:04 am to Darth_Vader
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I will be showing the "Patriot" to my world history class in a few weeks
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Please tell me you're joking.
I assumed he was joking. Maybe I shouldn't assume.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:25 am to GetCocky11
Always good to learn a little history on the OT. It's not that often we ever learn shite from this board.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:27 am to LSUBanker
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Blockade
Yep. Yorktown was made possible by the French navy.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:35 am to High C
Yeah, I'm appreciating all the credit being given to France in this thread.
However.
Let's remember why Cornwallis was in Yorktown to begin with. It wasn't because of some past success in battle. He was finding it impossible to pacify South Carolina. Patriot militia activity and British defeats/lack of decisive victories at King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse basically drove Cornwallis to conclude that he needed to go to Virginia to destroy the source of Patriot supplies.
So while France certainly was there with the assist at the end, it was the Americans that did the dirty work down south.
However.
Let's remember why Cornwallis was in Yorktown to begin with. It wasn't because of some past success in battle. He was finding it impossible to pacify South Carolina. Patriot militia activity and British defeats/lack of decisive victories at King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse basically drove Cornwallis to conclude that he needed to go to Virginia to destroy the source of Patriot supplies.
So while France certainly was there with the assist at the end, it was the Americans that did the dirty work down south.
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