Looks like our fake surrender tactic is working - those colonial fools have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. It will soon be time for the counter-attack, when they're least expecting it.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom C > Sent: 20 October 2007 00:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT - Britain Surrenders :-) > > >From the Writer's Almanac 10/19/2007 > > It's the anniversary of the surrender that effectively ended the > American Revolutionary War, in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. That > summer, the British had expected Washington to attack New York City. > But when he learned that he might be able to capture the British > forces on the Yorktown Peninsula in Virginia, he executed one of the > boldest moves of the entire war, moving his army 400 miles in order to > catch his enemy by surprise. He had to march his troops toward New > York City first, to scare the British into hunkering down for an > attack. Then he quickly moved south. The British commander only > realized what Washington was doing two days after he'd already gone. > > Washington's men and their French allies marched every day from 2:00 > a.m. until it grew too hot to continue. It was a hot summer, and on > one day, more than 400 men passed out from the heat. Few armies in > history had ever moved so far so fast. By the second week of October, > they had reached Yorktown and surrounded Cornwallis. He agreed to a > surrender that began at 2:00 a.m. on this day in 1781. The one soldier > who didn't surrender was Cornwallis himself. He sent his sword with > his second-in-command to be offered to the French general, signifying > that the British had been defeated by the French, not the Americans. > Washington was furious, but it didn't matter. England didn't have > enough money to raise another army. Two years later, the Treaty of > Paris was signed, and the war was officially over. > > > Tom C. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
