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Pholus

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1. It's sooo funny how history gets rewritten to fit some peoples desires. Thanks for the information!

Reply to jsmirman (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:37 AM

Mar 2012

During a tour I realized suddenly that the one line summary of the battle for Fort McHenry was: The British came over and shot the heck out of us, then got tired and decided to try again on another day which they never quite got around to.

That *was* an incredible victory for us -- and in line with the classic occupation denial strategies of just making it costly and waiting the occupiers out -- but we seem to want to make it much more of a Rambo-type thing in our memories.

I have to remember Israel Bissell though....that story is priceless.

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It's sooo funny how history gets rewritten to fit some peoples desires. Thanks for the information! Pholus Mar 2012 #1

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