Don’t count out the older veteran pedes when the chips are down. Sam was a badass.
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posted ago by Major_Gnarly
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As a Brit I find it hysterical we ever thought we could keep the colonies given the calibre of men we fought against.
Trust me, there are many, many real "Americans" out there. Simple country people, that have served and will serve again, regardless of age.
They still exist in England, but it is getting close to being to late. I suspect once we deal with these clowns here, we will provide you guys the means to fix your country. You have to do it for yourselves.
I will give kudos to the Brits for what they accomplished. The Thirteen colonies and Canada later on simply shouldn't have even been defended by the British since they were self sustaining and too far away to really be plausible.
One thing the British should have done is conquered continental Europe during that time, since I think they would have done relatively well. Didn't help they had a dumbass unpatriotic German King George. I doubt most Brits even liked him.
The Brits actually did mostly appreciate the Hanoverian kings, because they were protestants, they were fertile (so no succession issues), and they let the British parliament run things mostly as they wanted. They had had enough of meddling Catholic kings by 1688.
Fun fact: The last British monarch to be personally on a battlefield was George II (son of George I), who was present at the Battle of Dettingen in Germany in the 1740's.
The Dettingen battle honour is still flown on the regimental colors of the main royal British regiments (Blues and Royals, The Life Guards, and a few others)
Yeah I got the impression that the one of the George's (likely George 2 then) was actually ok in the Brit's eyes, but George 3 was definitely controversial.
George III most likely had porphyria, a liver disease that causes a massive amount of problems in the entire body, also affects the brain and nervous system... They called him "Mad King George" for a reason, he was often quite literally in a state of insanity.
I mean, he handled the American situation terribly, the colonists tried to stay loyal for as long as possible, but he wouldn't reply to their petitions (leading to the list of "Abuses and Usurpation" in the Declaration).
But by all accounts he was in an absolutely terrible state physically and mentally, so some of the blame falls on his ministers.
The Root Stock was strong and good.
We came from good stock Brother! I had my DNA done and Im 93 percent British Isles and some german and dutch.
If he is such a badass, why did he vote for Biden in the last election?
People's political viewpoints change as they age. Once they're dead, they become solid Democrats.
Purportedly Dude nailed one with his musket. Then drew a pair of dueling pistols and killed 2 more before finally drawing a Sword and taking swings at the British
Average life expectancy during colonial times was 38 with 40% never making it to adulthood. Mr. Samuel Whittemore is a Supreme Patriot and Bad Ass Motherfucker.
Average life expectancy doesn’t really mean anything because in previous times it got dragged down heavily by infant death rates.
George Washington - 67 y/o
Thomas Jefferson - 83 y/o
John Adams - 90 y/o John Quincy Adams - 80 y/o Benjamin Franklin - 84 y/o
And that’s just a handful of examples.
Typically, once someone got past their teens they were on track to live to a ripe old age (barring accidents or stupidity). As you said, it was infant mortality that drug the average lifespan down.
These were wealthy men with access to more hygienic living conditions, variety of food and access to the best doctors of the time. Unlikely many of them were subject to the harshness of life that the average colonist endured. That being said, considering all the possible afflictions of old age, any human living beyond 80 years at that time is quite impressive.
My point being that the average lifespan is a poor point of reference. Infant mortality skews that number too much.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/
Extremely small samples, but once a person survived beyond infancy, their life expectancy became much more optimistic.
Real motherfuckin' G
Hear, Hear!
Back when Massachusetts had balls
Ol Sam was swinging a pair of solid brass ones
I'm Irish but I look to America on where the World is heading. Trump is my president. I hope the American spirit this man had lives on or the free World will fall to communism.
What an absolute legend. I hope to be half the man he was.
Corn Pop’s got nothing on this guy!
They teach about this guy at Appleseed shooting instruction. Total badass, and a great intro to firearms use and basic marksmanship.
Stocking mill runs a coffee called smoking musket, I think, that tells the rest of the story. They found the dude bloody and trying to load his musket on the verge of death. Pulled through and died 18 years later. Bad ass dude