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September 11th, and every USAmerican is thinking about the anniversary of the Battle of Lake Champlain: September 11, 1814. At the same time U.S. Navy Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated the British fleet, the U.S. Army triumphed at the Battle of Plattsburgh.
M'donough's Victory on Lake Champlain, 1846 lithograph (Naval History and Heritage Command).
Enemy fire eventually silenced all of the guns on one side of the Saratoga. At this point, Macdonough performed the masterstroke that turned the tide in the battle, winding his flagship around so that he could bring fresh guns to bear on the British ships. Lieutenant James Robertson, who had taken command of the Confiance after Downie’s death, tried to bring his flagship around by employing the same maneuver, but without advance preparation his lines became fouled and his ship immobilized. The Saratoga relentlessly pounded the British ship with broadside after broadside. The fire was so intense that a British marine who had been at Trafalgar claimed that “that was a mere flea-bite in comparison with this.”
— Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict
USS Saratoga in 1814: a Vermont-built corvette (Wikimedia Commons).
#war of 1812#age of sail#naval battle#tall ships#royal navy#military history#battle of plattsburgh#battle of lake champlain#uss saratoga#maritime history#naval history#us history#us navy
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Tea pot with a depicting of the Battle of Lake Champlain 11 September 1814, made c. 1820
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Macdonough’s victory on Lake Champlain and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 11 1814 - Benjamin Tanner
The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final British invasion of the northern states of the United States during the War of 1812. An army under Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost and a naval squadron under Captain George Downie converged on the lakeside town of Plattsburgh, New York. Plattsburgh was defended by New York and Vermont militia and detachments of regular troops of the United States Army, all under the command of Brigadier General Alexander Macomb, and ships commanded by Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough.
Downie's squadron attacked shortly after dawn on 11 September 1814, but was defeated after a hard fight in which Downie was killed. Prévost then abandoned the attack by land against Macomb's defences and retreated to Canada, stating that even if Plattsburgh was captured, any British troops there could not be supplied without control of the lake.
When the battle took place, American and British delegates were meeting at Ghent in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, attempting to negotiate a treaty acceptable to both sides to end the war. The American victory at Plattsburgh, and the successful defense at the Battle of Baltimore, which began the next day and halted British advances in the Mid-Atlantic states, denied the British negotiators leverage to demand any territorial claims against the United States on the basis of Uti possidetis, i.e. retaining territory they held at the end of hostilities. The Treaty of Ghent, in which captured or occupied territories were restored on the basis of status quo ante bellum, i.e. the situation as it existed before the war, was signed three months after the battle.
#Battle of Plattsburgh#Battle of Lake Champlain#Sir George Prévost#George Downie#Alexander Macomb#Thomas Macdonough#XIX century#Benjamin Tenner#american history#war of the 1812#Illustration#art#arte
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (10 May 1775) was a military operation that occurred early in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). A small colonial expedition jointly led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen surprised the British garrison of Fort Ticonderoga, seizing both the fort and its artillery. The Americans later used the captured cannons to win the Siege of Boston.
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga sits at the southern end of Lake Champlain, near the modern-day border between New York State and Vermont. Its location was of critical significance for the colonial wars of the 18th century, as it guarded a major system of rivers and lakes that connected New York City to Quebec. This waterway – comprised of the Hudson River, Lake George, Lake Champlain, the Richelieu River, and the Saint Lawrence River – was a nearly unbroken chain of bodies of water with only a handful of portages that had long been utilized by the Native Americans for travel purposes. The colonial empires of Britain and France considered the passage to be the 'American jugular', the key to the continent; if the British controlled it, for instance, they could invade France's colony of Canada, while the French could use the waterway to attack the interior of Britain's Thirteen Colonies.
In 1755, the French constructed a large star-shaped fortress, named Fort Carillon, at the key juncture between Lake George and Lake Champlain. The ongoing French and Indian War (1754-1763) marked the climactic struggle between the two colonial powers for dominance of North America, and the British knew they had to capture Fort Carillon as a prerequisite for an invasion of Canada. In 1758, a British expedition of 16,000 regular and provincial troops set out to conquer the fort but was repulsed by 4,000 French defenders. The Battle of Carillon was the largest and bloodiest battle fought on North American soil until that point. It also gave the fort a reputation for impregnability, even though most of the fighting had taken place about a mile away from the fort itself. After the battle, the French reduced the fort's garrison to only 400 men, leaving it vulnerable to another British expedition of 11,000 men the following year. Realizing they had no chance against the large British force, the French garrison decided to abandon Carillon, but not before spiking the guns and destroying much of the fort with explosives.
The British captured the ruined fort and renamed it Ticonderoga, which was derived from an Iroquois word meaning "between two waters" or "where the waters meet" (history.com). The British spent the next several years working to rebuild and improve the fort. But at the end of the war in 1763, France ceded Canada to Britain, which negated Fort Ticonderoga's strategic importance because the New York – Canada water route was now entirely within British territory. The British, therefore, did not prioritize the fort's upkeep and, by 1775, it had fallen into a state of semi-disrepair, with the walls, bastions, and blockhouses in a dilapidated condition. It was garrisoned by a skeleton force of 2 officers and 48 men and was also the home of their families, which included 24 women and children. This garrison was much too small to defend the fort from attack but was deemed suitable to watch over it during peacetime. But in early 1775, the clouds of war were quickly gathering, and Ticonderoga was woefully unprepared for the storm.
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Outlander 7x05 Easter Eggs and Spoilers - “Singapore”
Spoilers below the cut!
Singapore is the name of this episode, and it opens with goats on a cliff face. This is in reference to the Highlander’s whom fight for the British, we later find out. The title is a direct reference to the battle of Singapore and the attack of the Japanese, which Claire describes to Jamie as a parallel with the impending attack on the fort, which informs his actions for the episode.
Lallybroch
Gem and Mandy are playing in a graveyard, as Mandy wanted to talk to Jamie. Jemmy tells Bree that Jamie told him to leave him a stone and built him a cairn if he ever came to Lallybroch. I try very hard to tolerate Sophie’s acting but she’s so wooden at times. Other times she’s fine (mainly in the more emotional scenes) but her line delivery is quite hard to swallow sometimes. She has changed her pronounciation of ‘Da’ like 4 times now, and that’s hard for me to ignore.
Roger and Bree read another letter from Jamie and Claire. The letter is dated June 18, 1777, which is our ONLY way of knowing the timeline and how much time has passed between episodes. In it, Claire writes that Jamie continues to dream about the children and Bree reveals she’s been to the fort before with Frank. Her and Roger decide not to look at the history books and find out what happened there.
Before Bree heads to work, these two have another attempt at a romantic scene that doesn’t quite land (a hard hat in bed and his hands down her pants just made me uncomfortable). These two try but they just don’t have it!!!! And I think Richard Rankin could if he wasn’t opposite Sophie, as he is a great actor.
Jemmy gets off the bus from school and Roger follows him into his hide out (which I think is referenced in the books as a place Fergus used to play). Roger tries to talk to him about it and Jemmy says he got in trouble at school for defending their family in Gaelic. This child actor playing Jemmy is so great!!! He’s doing such a good job!
Ticonderoga
They have now been there for months, and Jamie once again organically finds himself leading men, this time they refer to themselves as ‘Fraser’s Irregulars.’ Claire is practicing medicine under Lieutenant Stactoe, and the fort is under the command of Saint Clair. We also meet General Formoy (who is mirroring the ignorance of the Bonny Prince). Ian has reunited with them as well.
Sugarloaf hill is mentioned as a point the English can attack from. For those unfamiliar with the location of Fort Ticonderoga, it sits on the edge of the New York and Vermont boarders, along a narrow portion of Lake Champlain. The fort is surrounded by water on three sides, and as of now it doesn’t look like there is a Sugarloaf hill near the site. There’s a sugarloaf ski mountain in Maine, though!
Jamie has a dejavuex moment with Formoy when he uses his knowledge to advice against an attack and is found denied and insulted, akin to a goat for being Scottish (like the episode preview implies). Jamie is once again being sidelined and watching history repeat itself with the ignorance of leaders like Formoy and the Bonnie Prince (and simultaneously history is…happening? But where they know the outcome, could you consider that history repeating itself?).
Denzel Hunter and Claire finally meet towards the end of the episode and the two of them help a man named Walter Woodcock together. It’s the dream team finally united! They successfully opperate on Mr. Woodcock and amputate his leg, but only after Denny so kindly recognizes Claire’s struggle to be taken seriously and back door allows for her to help him.
The Hunters and William
Denzel makes a comment about attending medical school in London via a distant relative after their parents died. Their mother died in childbirth having Rachel, and their father died a few years later in a flood having drown. The Quakers who took them in made that connection for Denzel when they learned of a shared last name Hunter, so this scene hammers home the importance of their Meeting (and reminds us that they are now kicked out).
William and Denzel debate over morals and how Denzel can be within his beliefs while practicing medicine. They come upon a man on the road who offers them a place to stay for the night and they are fed a disgusting meal of rat stew. William is shown the realities of the war and he and Rachel speak outside. In the few short scenes they’ve had you can tell William has a crush on her, which is exactly how the books describe their relationship from Williams internal monologue.
While sleeping, the Johnsons attempt to attack William, Denny and Rachel with knives and William is able to show his strength and skills as a fighter. Charles is such a great casting, as he is every bit the young man described in the book and his size and strength is akin to Jamie’s. The Johnson’s have evidently done this many times before so to steal from un expecting visitors.
William feels guilt over taking that man’s life and tells Rachel that he’d never killed anyone before. This scene you can see Jamie’s heart come through in him. He has a flurry of feelings about it that he cannot sort through and worries that Rachel might think less of him due to her beliefs but she reassures him she knows him well enough to know he did it to save them.
When they part William tells them to ask for his uncle should they run into trouble. He gives them the money from Ian and keeps the rosary beads. When Rachel watches him leave with fond eyes Denny reminds her that he is a British soldier, and violence follows men like that. There’s a sweet scene between the siblings where Denny gives Rachel an out, but she insists they stay together.
Loch Errochry
The Land Rover Bree and her boss drive around in is a dream, I want one. The setting is also stunning, having driven through the highlands last year it’s still so hard to believe that country looks like that. Bree meets her new male employees including Rob Cameron (!!!). He immediately locks her into the tunnel like a jackass and Bree discovers the light they gave her has no batteries. She quickly lights a match and finds some lights and proceeds to inspect the tunnel. I’d be clostrophobic down there and it feels like something out of a nightmare watching her walk through the tunnels.
She hears buzzing halfway down and a weird blue light at the end that she has to walk through (the graphics are strange but hey, hard to depict what was written) and it leads her to her escape. It’s implied that somewhere in the tunnel may be a portal for time travel.
Bree tells the kids at dinner about being trapped in the tunnel and how she escaped but you can tell she’s still unsettled by the event. Her and Roger step away from the table to discuss it. She’s worried the men are never going to respect her and Roger reminds her Claire did it at Harvard. A bit of a turn around from him being slightly sexist last episode about her working in general.
While in the office they uncover a hidden drawer in the desk and he gifts her a pen. Doesn’t undo his comments from last episode but that’s just me, and his insistence on her wearing knickers and a hard hat needs to stahhhhhp.
Bree heads to the bar where the men and Rob Cameron are hanging out and tries to awkwardly earn their respect. They all try and play it off as a joke and she tries to insert her dominance. Sophie also can’t say the word “anything” without a Scottish accent.
Young Ian
Joseph Brant of the Mohawk is at Shadow Lake and Ian is recruited to deliver a letter to him. Ian is reluctant because of personal reasons. He asks Claire how baby’s come to be and why he was unable to get his Mohawk wife pregnant. His belief is that his spirit was not strong enough and fears he cannot get a woman pregnant again and would refuse to take another wife. He tells Claire that Jamie told him about sperm and asks her to look at his (had to laugh). When asked, Ian tells her Iseabell was perfect and not deformed, but Claire has a Frank conversation to help Ian understand that it’s not a matter of his spirit but science and gives him renewed hope he may be able to have a child with another woman one day.
When he arrives at the Mohawk camp he sees Emily, who is happy to see him. She tells him she now has two children and is happy. Ian seems to finally be at peace with that, and asks to meet her son (who does not look Mohawk). He tells Ian that Emily’s mother tells him he’s the child of his spirit. Ian gives him the name Ian James and I’m sat here smiling like a fool over how cute that scene was.
Simon Fraser
One of the few scenes we get with Claire and a Jamie this episode, Jamie tells Claire that a Simon Fraser is one of Burgoyne brigadiers on the side of the British. Book readers will know that he is a ticket home to Scotland for them later on, and Jamie tells her it is not the same Simon Fraser she met in season 2 but not the old fox or his son but one of Jamie’s second cousins from Balnain (located outside of Inverness, not far from Loch Ness). It is also now understood that with their troops low on supplies they will need to attack the fort sooner than later. Jamie knows that a Fraser in the camp, the troops will know well enough to attack from higher ground as Highlanders do.
Jamie brings Formoy and the men to higher ground to show them that it is possible to the English can reach them by cannon, and once again finds himself standing across an incompetent soldier (with a terrible accent). These scenes are so short and choppy, and for that I dislike them. It’s not enough time with Jamie (or Claire for that matter) before we are abruptly switched over to another character. The atmosphere of them walking around at the Fort was palpable in the books, and we are missing it so far in the show sadly.
Later on the British set up shop in the exact place Jamie warned of, and Jamie uses his knowledge how Highlander warfare to help lead an evacuation by boat. Claire won’t allow Walter Woodcock to leave the fort because his injury is still too fresh, and sadly has to leave him. She tells him due to his injury the British will have to show him mercy, but also gives him laudanum. I was surprised she didn’t outright show him how to use it if he needed to drift off to sleep. The civilians are all put into boats in the lake and the fort is abandoned. The next sequence of events in the books is fairly action packed so I’m curious how they go about it all next episode.
Ian and Rachel
When Ian returns to the fort, he spots Rachel. A critique I have of this season is that they make the traveling seem so fast, and it’s incredibly hard to keep track of time passed. Ian was just in Virginia, now he’s suddenly back in New York. That said, these two have great chemistry without even trying, and Ian let’s Rachel know Claire is his aunt. It’s implied they will be seeing much more of one another, thankfully. I think the actors have done a great job of establishing the differences between Rachel and Ian and Rachel and William - Izzy plays Rachel differently around Ian and it’s great work on her part.
In the End
Roger goes out into the dark to search for the Nucklavee and we see a camera angle from across the yard watching the front door of the house. I suspect next episode we will actually set eyes on Buck for the first time.
The episode ends when Bree goes to the graveyard to talk to Jamie and brings him a stone. She tells him about her new job, buying Lallybroch, etc. and it fades to black (a weak ending and my least favorite thus far). Nothing happens this episode action wise, and it was mainly an episode used for establishing upcoming plot. The pacing is getting really bad in that such large expanses of tiem are not being explained. How in one episode did Jamie have two conversations about Sugarloaf Hill and the British Invasion, and The Hunters / William Travel by Horse to New York from Virginia, Ian leave camp to go see Emily and return…it’s so many moving parts and it’s not clear how they all make sense. Even having read the books I’m getting confused with how they are choosing to speed things up.
I will say this until I’m blue in the face, but this show works best when Claire and Jamie are together and on screen, and every time I dislike an episode it’s in large part due to a lack of them. That can be said with this episode, but I’m optimistic we will see much more of them next episode thanks for the preview.
Episode 6 Preview
Preview for episode 6 shows what looks to be an action filled attack on the Fort - we see Jamie attacking British soldiers, William in a red coat again, Roger running into the yard angrily, and Ian and Rachel getting closer. Lots of good things that I hope we get proper screen time to dissect.
#outlander#outlanderedit#jamie x claire#jamie fraser#claire fraser#sam heughan#claire x jamie#jammf#caitriona balfe#james alexander malcolm mackenzie fraser#outlander spoilers#outlander season 7#outlander 7x05#outlander review#outlander books#outlander ep: Singapore
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Have You Heard About Champ? --Monster of Lake Champlain --with Clippings 1873-1929
In 2018 the woman who took the iconic photo of “Champ” died. Sandra Mansi lost her battle with cancer when she was 74. On Tuesday afternoon, July 5, 1977, Sandra Mansi of Bristol, Connecticut, knelt on the shores of Lake Champlain somewhere between St. Albans, Vermont, andthe Canadian border, and snapped what is widely touted as the best lake monster photograph ever taken. To the best of anyone’s…
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#burlington#Champ#folklore#History#lake champlain#lakemonster#monster#sea serpent#st albans#usa#vermont
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This Day in History: Battle of Valcour Island (part 2)
On this day in 1776, Benedict Arnold burns his fleet of American ships, preventing them from being captured by the British. He and his men flee to safety.
Mere days earlier, Arnold had learned that a large British fleet was in Lake Champlain, headed his way. Arnold was outmanned and outgunned, so he hid his small fleet behind Valcour Island. The British fleet didn’t notice him at first, giving the Americans an advantage. In the battle that followed, the Americans fought hard, but they still found themselves cornered in a channel by the island at the end of the day.
The British retired for the night, thinking they would finish off Arnold in the morning.
That didn’t work out so well.
The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-battle-valcour-island-2
#tdih#otd#this day in history#history#history blog#American Revolution#America#freedom#founders#sharethehistory
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Events 4.16 (before 1940)
1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
1346 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1838 – The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
1847 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1878 – The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 – Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
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LOL HAPPY PRIDE MONTH I GUESS
The rain fell in Burlington, Vermont more like an explosion than a weather event. The sound of the rain alone was enough to drown out even raised voices, and when the thunder rumbled in the sky, all bets were off—a piercing scream of terror wouldn’t rise above that.
Michelle leaned forward over the steering wheel. The windshield wipers battled against the onslaught of water to no avail; she couldn’t see further than the hood of the car. “This isn’t exactly the birthday surprise I wanted it to be.”
“Is that house three different colors? I can’t believe how colorful everything is here!” River said. They had their blanket-draped knees pulled up to their chest, perfectly comfortable in the passenger seat.
“I wouldn’t know,” Michelle said. “I can’t see through—”
The next clap of thunder interrupted her. When the noise faded back to just the pounding of the rain on the car’s metal roof, she sighed. “We’ve got to park. I can’t drive in this, and you can’t drive at all.” Cars on either side narrowed the residential streets. Michelle pressed carefully on the gas pedal—surely, the stoplight was still green. “Find us a parking lot, please.”
River pulled up a map on their phone and navigated them to the nearby Target. Their eyes were glued to the streets around them, taking in everything and smiling broader every time they passed another teal and purple sign with the word “Burlington” proudly emblazoned on it in yellow.
“Look at all these lights,” River said. “Burlington was the first city in the United States to run entirely on renewable energy, you know.”
“Was it?”
Michelle pulled carefully into a parking spot—assuming she really was seeing the lines through the agitated puddles—and turned off the car. They were nearly out of gas after their three and half hour drive.
“Thanks for the day trip, Michelle. Burlington is everything I hoped it would be.”
That was good news. River had been talking about Burlington, Vermont ever since they started planning their escape. They had done careful, detailed research to find a real home, one where they could bike instead of drive, plant a nice garden, not melt in the summer, always be within a reasonable distance of some decent performance art centers, and a million other tiny criteria that culminated in this one, “perfect” place. They had pinned all their hopes to Burlington, Vermont.
“It’s beautiful,” Michelle said. “I’m sure it will be even better when it’s dry.”
“And when it’s fall and everything is golden.”
“And when you live here.”
River ducked their head, a red blush creeping up their neck. They pulled the blanket up over their face. “Stop.”
“No, I mean it.” Michelle leaned closer to River; close enough to smell their powdery deodorant. “Everything is more beautiful when you’re around. When you finally move here, the golden leaves will pale in comparison! The great Lake Champlain will empty in shame! The mighty Appalachian mountains will crumble after millenia of standing tall because they simply cannot compete!”
River peeked out over the edge of the blanket. “One of these days I’m going to take you seriously.”
MIchelle’s chest tightened. River’s eyes were gleaming with joy; it made their whole face light up in a way that seriously affected Michelle’s heart. “You can,” she said.
At the same time another clap of thunder temporarily deafened them both.
“What did you say?”
Michelle settled back into the driver’s seat. “Let’s check the radar to see when all this will let up. It’s a long drive back.”
“Back to gendered pronouns. Back to a name I didn’t pick.” They leaned against the window, gazing longingly out into the Target parking lot. A Burlington parking lot. “I don’t want to go. I hope it rains like this forever.”
“But then Burlington will be completely underwater. How will you live here then?”
“How will I live here?” Their voice suddenly weakened. Michelle could barely hear it over the rain. “How am I supposed to get here at all? I have nothing, they keep—” They struggled for a moment to find the words. “They keep taking it all away.”
Michelle wanted to say, You have me. You always have me. Instead, she held up her phone, showing River the dark blob of green and red being consumed by blue and purple. “Text them,” she said. “We can’t drive home in this.”
The crinkly near-tears look on River’s face melted into something open-mouthed and dumbfounded. “What are you saying?”
“I’m asking, Mx. Burlington Expert, if there’s a Holiday Inn here. My dad has free nights we can use.”
River started to smile. “We’re staying the night in Burlington, Vermont?”
“If there’s a Holiday Inn.”
“There is,” they said. Because of course they knew that, too. Their smile became a full-wattage grin, their voice rose in volume and pitch. “Thank God for a colder than average March! We’re staying the night in freaking Burlington, Vermont!”
They whipped out their phone to text their parents, feet wiggling in joy.
Michelle turned the car back on. “I’ll make sure you get to stay here for more than one night, River. I’ll make sure you can stay here forever one day.”
“And you’ll visit me, right?”
“Of course.” She hoped they would live here together. She hoped she could make herself a part of River’s dream home.
“Of course,” River repeated. “Since you think I’m so beautiful.”
“Since I’m totally and completely head over heels in love with you, obviously.”
River smiled, and just as Michelle opened her mouth to say, I mean it. For real. I love you, the sound of the rain became harsher, heavier—sleet and ice. “We better get to the hotel fast.” Michelle’s heart started to pound at the thought of a night alone together.
River turned to the window again, another look of longing settling on their face. “Before we leave tomorrow, let’s stop by the library,” they said.
“Anywhere you want, River.”
“It’s the largest library in Vermont, you know.”
Michelle wanted to say, I love you, River. Instead, she said, “Is it?”
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And we have a huge number of people that are watching what's going on in the rivers in the lake and the Gulf and they see the Tron facilities and they see a situation and the Spheres and they need intel on what's happening in Florida right now and Mac is going to try and get it others are coming in rapidly and their foreigners and they've had enough of the morlocks who don't know anything and they're just interference and they are moving it okay. He thanks us and me and she does too. We also have movement on one of the stones in Superior and one of the stones in Ontario and one of the stones in Huron and one of the stones in Champlain and one in Erie HR 50s I'm sorry too in Superior and now there's two in each momentarily they'll be three four out of five and each are clear and the Saint Laurent four out of five are clear and they are moving the fifth is now clear and moving. Right now there are three rivers and Mississippi and the Missouri have four out of five out and the third in the middle has five out of five and we have movement on all those that are out and we will have the fifth out in a moment of all of them
Update: all the stones in the Great lakes are moving
The Gulf of Mexico Tommy f is going to threaten our son and the others and he might be stuck there no he says I'm stuck we have to do something and we're going to make sure that a wall is there. Right now we're moving troops in he says they're going to relocate the equipment on those other tunnels and they're going to be out shortly it's not relocated to the gulf and they're already doing it and it's going to go faster instead of slower and it could be a disaster. If water came from both sides it would wash in and it would make a plume in the middle it'll create a big huge wave and tons of them it'll be a big problem maybe 4 or 500 ft waves but they would dissipate and only 20 miles no hundreds if not thousands of miles so we're moving down to cordon off the Yucatan and we have walls and we're going to install them right now but moving in and we're installing walls in Florida and thank you very much Zeus and Hera and he says you're welcome and we will have to assume responsibility Frank Castle hardcastle Duke Nukem Blockbuster assemble all teams recruit for my forces everyone you need to remove all threats and we need a foot soldiers too right now and call all the races in Olympus and you're sure you're in the room and let's get it done and I thank you again Zeus and Hera it is what we need
Thor Freya
We are on it and we called them off all construction projects like you usually do and all projects that can be put on hold temporary purposes we have activated all battle fleets and we are in code Red alert and right now all over the every single area that we have everything is going to be fully charged and fully loaded all supply lines are cleared and we are invading, and yes to temporarily control the situation
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I'm listening to "Perry's Victory On Lake Erie" on repeat and while this song is fire, it also feels like a prime candidate for "readers added context" style fact checking.
Columbian tars are the true sons of Mars, who rake fore and aft when they fight on the deep.
On the bed of Lake Erie, commanded by Perry, they caused many Britons to take their last sleep.
💬 Readers added context they thought people might want to know. The average depth of Lake Erie is only about 19 metres (62 feet).
(See also "the whole British fleet, was captured complete"; and claiming that Perry is better than Nelson and Rodney).
Not only did Oliver Hazard Perry have a huge advantage in broadside weight over the British (far from being an underdog as the song implies), but allegedly he made poor tactical decisions and was saved by Perry's Luck, a very favourable change of wind. So he won the Battle of Lake Erie in part because of an act of God and/or spiritual forces of Lake Erie, I'm just sayin.
The naval history channel Drachinifel made a great youtube video called "War of 1812 - Freshwater Edition."
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While I think there is some excessive clowning on the size of the Great Lakes compared to the open ocean—never mind that there was also a naval battle on Lake Champlain, which is vastly smaller than Lake Erie—the video does make clear that the lake-going ships did not need to be built to the same level of sturdiness as ocean-going vessels. And they used this weight advantage in construction for More Gun, making the Great Lakes naval battles of the War of 1812 huge artillery showdowns.
#war of 1812#lake erie#oliver hazard perry#lee murdock#age of sail#military history#naval history#naval battle#us navy#great lakes#ohio#music#folk songs#age of fighting sail#and how
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Plate depicting "Commodore Macdonnough's Victory", c. 1815
This is deep blue transferware depicting a scene from the Anglo-American War of 1812-15, in which Commodore Macdonnough (1783- 1825), commander of the American naval forces in Lake Champlain, won the eponymous decisive battle 1814; the plate was made later, c. 1835
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11-12 OCTOBER 1776 – BATTLE OF VALCOUR ISLAND #RevolutionaryWar The desperate early years of the Revolutionary War forced the Continental Army to engage in many unorthodox operations as it fended off the mighty British Empire. One of the most unusual of these was the Battle of Valcour Island, where a ragtag flotilla of ships under Army command engaged a British fleet on Lake Champlain. After defeating the ill-fated American invasion of Canada, British General Guy Carleton spearheaded a joint army-navy counter-invasion of the rebellious colonies in the autumn of 1776. The troop transports which would ferry the British army across Lake Champlain were to be accompanied by armed vessels of the vaunted British navy. After hastily assembling a fleet of 15 small armed vessels manned by soldiers drawn from regiments of the Continental Army, Major General Benedict Arnold set out on a desperate mission to defeat the enemy naval threat despite being dramatically outgunned. The battle was joined in the strait between Valcour Island and the New York mainland on 11 October 1776. Although Arnold lost most of his vessels in the two-day engagement, his operation slowed the British advance and forced Carleton to postpone his invasion until the spring of 1777. Arnold’s ingenious lake-borne maneuver prevented the British from marching down the Hudson River Valley to join forces with their main forces in New York City. #Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOCV #MilitaryHistory #LakeChamplain #1776 #AmericanRevolution #ContinentalArmy #Patriot U.S. Army U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Secretary of the Army U.S. Army Chief of Staff U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) ALSO SEE: - https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-6-1/index.html - https://armyhistory.org/buying-time-the-battle-of-valcour-island/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjldhiZOs8b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution (2010), ISBN 0-07-162679-4.George Washington's Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea (2008), ISBN 0-07-149389-1 OCLC 212627064.Benedict Arnold's Navy: the Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain But Won the American Revolution (2006), ISBN 0-07-146806-4 OCLC 64510314.Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack (2004) OCLC 60410100.The Only Life that Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack (2004) ISBN 159013060X.Spanish edition published by Ediciones B as "La ronda del pirata" in 2007. Spanish edition published by Ediciones B as "El negrero" in 2005. Spanish edition published by Ediciones B as "El vigía" in 2004. He won the 2009 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature for George Washington's Secret Navy. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association in 2004 for his novel, Glory In The Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy. Nelson continues to write full-time, and has published over twenty-five books, both fiction and nonfiction. Nelson currently lives in Harpswell, Maine, with Lisa and their four children, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Jonathan, and Abigail. In 1992, Nelson completed his first novel, By Force of Arms. After living in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, Nelson found work aboard the Golden Hinde, where he met future wife Lisa Page. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts for two years, and then transferred to UCLA, with the ambition of becoming a film director. In 1980, Nelson graduated from Lewiston High School. He expressed an interest in boats from a young age, building a skipjack in ninth grade and a canoe in eleventh. Nelson was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1962.
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The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon (later renamed Fort Ticonderoga) on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War. A British military force of more than 11,000 men under the command of General Sir Jeffery Amherst moved artillery to high ground overlooking the fort, which was defended by a garrison of 400 Frenchmen under the command of Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque.
Rather than defend the fort, de Bourlamaque, operating under instructions from General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, withdrew his forces, and attempted to blow up the fort. The fort's powder magazine was destroyed, but its walls were not severely damaged. The British then occupied the fort, which was afterwards known by the name Fort Ticonderoga. They embarked on a series of improvements to the area and began construction of a fleet to conduct military operations on Lake Champlain.
The French tactics were sufficient to prevent Amherst's army from joining James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. However, they also tied up 3,000 of their own troops that were not able to assist in Quebec's defense. The capture of the fort, which had previously repulsed a large British army a year earlier, contributed to what the British called the "Annus Mirabilis" of 1759.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ticonderoga_(1759)
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