Independence Day
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Dodjem wrote: (even if you can't spell and say 'Math')
But we CAN and DO say MATH, finally a Briton that admits to the proper saying of the word....:p 
lets all celebrate our independance from AmericaSacrifices of our Founding Fathers
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed,rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education.
They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:
"For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor".
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War.
We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted.....we shouldn't.
EdelBrock wrote: We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Traitors. 
Anyways, the American lad work with has brought in two trays of doughnuts today! 
I'm gonna get myself a huge cawfee, stick my feet up on the desk, and then pretend I'm a Noo Yoik Cop for the rest of the morning?!
(Now, where's the collection tin for the rebels in Oireland?) 
If there are any one time Noolers heading back home to San Francisco today for good...
:baloon: and 
home!
Congratulations on this, the aniversary of the victory of French funded terrorists over their legitimate king and government.
El Jarvo wrote:
(Now, where's the collection tin for the rebels in Oireland?)
In a rucksack with a tube map and a copy of the Quran.
EdelBrock wrote: We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
we didn't just fight the septics we were having another war against the frenchies.
you only played our second team
Cant see whats independant about America myself. Oil, culture, New Order all come from overseas:D
How about 'detain any vaguely tanned looking person at immigration for 24 hours, bugger him senseless then let him go without explaination day'. Only, that would be every day wouldnt it.
Stefano Cundari wrote: How about 'detain any vaguely tanned looking person at immigration for 24 hours, bugger him senseless then let him go without explaination day'. Only, that would be every day wouldnt it.
Is that how you get your kicks? 
NO Regret wrote: Cant see whats independant about America myself. Oil, culture, New Order all come from overseas:D
Hey, Black culture from those with some bloodlines from african descendents that were brought over to America as slaves is unique and independent. White people in America don't produce anything of value or quality but can buy/import the better stuff from the rest of the world. And the poorer white people can't buy as much but they are happy whenever there is a war, their country music is unique in being bad and unoriginal. Americans import their workforce from Mexico, since all the poor white people do is smoke cigs, and blow up firecrackers on July 4th. It's getting harder to fuel everyone's pickups thou, maybe another war is needed.
EdelBrock wrote:
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
No
El Jarvo wrote:
Stefano Cundari wrote: How about 'detain any vaguely tanned looking person at immigration for 24 hours, bugger him senseless then let him go without explaination day'. Only, that would be every day wouldnt it.
Is that how you get your kicks?
read it again carefully. its a clear reference to US immigration
Stefano Cundari wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
Stefano Cundari wrote: How about 'detain any vaguely tanned looking person at immigration for 24 hours, bugger him senseless then let him go without explaination day'. Only, that would be every day wouldnt it.
Is that how you get your kicks?
read it again carefully. its a clear reference to US immigration
Thank fuck im Scottish, its that cold here,we're blue, when we go abroad,it takes us a week to go white Billy Connelly
The Doc and Hibster beat me to it...
USA - forever in the debt of France
Do any of you lot ever think about that
LeggyD wrote: The Doc and Hibster beat me to it...
USA - forever in the debt of France
Do any of you lot ever think about that
Why France (I ask niavely in hope of a historic damnation of the US).
See here: Military History of France
- American Revolution
- In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
Runs with scissors wrote: See here: Military History of France
- American Revolution
- In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
No dumbass, they bankrolled the entire terrorist campaign against the British, seeing it as a "2nd front". Something the US has gone on to copy repeatedly....while slagging off the very country which funded the inception of theirs.
Never trust a seppo and never do anything for them, they will just call you a "cheese eating surrender monkey" (while simulataneously being unable to crush some kids armed with home made weapons using the world's largest military.).
Doctor? wrote:
No dumbass, they bankrolled the entire terrorist campaign against the British
False.
Yay...I get a 100 on my quiz...can I have a smiley face on the paper as well?
EdelBrock wrote: Sacrifices of our Founding Fathers
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed,rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education.
They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:
"For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor".
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War.
We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted.....we shouldn't.
Blah blah blah
Get ewwwver it
Biginoil wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: Sacrifices of our Founding Fathers
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed,rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education.
They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:
"For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor".
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War.
We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted.....we shouldn't.
Blah blah blah
Get ewwwver it
I'm just waiting for the fireworks show...
I hope it's as lovely as the one last night...
Jeff, you are all having a party over there to celebrate kicking us out.
You don't really expect us to wish you all a happy holiday do you? 
