I'll repeat what another said, without guns, we'd be British
Perhaps Mommy in Colorado oughta drive Junior out here for a little Revolutionary History. Not three miles from where I write, Poor Lord Cornwallis and his fine Hessians attempted to hold their redoubts against a constant rain of cannon fire from French and US artillery, and bold Zweibrueckners and US soldiers fought Hessians hand to hand to force the British into caves. Tarleton and his British Legion (what we Virginians call Yankee scum) held Gloucester Point as an escape route, all in wait for Sir Henry Clinton (smirk) to ride south from New York to reinforce Cornwallis' forces facing Washington. But dashing Banastre fought and lost the last Cavalry fight of the war against Lauzen, then as we know, the storms blew in on the York, the French fleet held Chesapeake Bay closed.....and Sir Clinton never made it. Mommy in Colorado could then take Junior along the long walk into the field of surrender, with her iPod beating "The World Turned Upside Down".....and see where the British and Hessians conducted their version of turning the firearms over. Wonder if the reenactment in Colorado covered this setinel event in American history...that stronger men with guns and nerves did the deed against a hired force of crack troops. I'll bet not.
