1780 – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed. Nothing like a good massacre to show how you really feel.
1849 – Lincoln says “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of people some of time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of time”. The dimmocrat party says “all you gotta do is fool enough to get yourself elected, then screw the rest…”
1864 – Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time. He has the full backing of the French government which naturally means he’s a despot, later executed by his own rebellious people.
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. It’s either this, or “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”.
1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday. Hillary Clinton, born in 1947, is, by her own words, named after Sir Edmund, who was completely unknown in 1947.
1977 – Janet Guthrie becomes first woman to drive in Indy 500, completes first ten laps while applying mascara.
1987 – Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man’s remains, offering a slightly used Cub Scout troop and an undisclosed amount of cash.
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The first entry should have read:
WHILE Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton laid wounded on the ground from a Continental Musket that was fired AFTER the flag of surrender was flown over the COntinental lines, his troops assumed that the Continentals had attacked their leader under a flag of truce, and were quite understandably upset at this, which theys saw as cowardice and foul play to the extreme, and without orders from Tarleton, massacred Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed. Nothing like a good massacre to show how you really feel.
In retrospect, it has been decided that what PROBABLY happened was the the Continentals decided to surrender, hoisted the flag, and proceeded to pass the order to hold fire and surrender. Some in the Continental lines got the memo a little late so they opened fire on Tarleton when the opportunity presented itself. Being a mounted Dragoon, Tarleton was seen by his men to fall from his horse, presumably dead from Continental treachery that would have them hoist the flag of truce so that they could draw their commander in close and murder him. No orders were given to attack. Tarleton’s men did that on their own accord, and i can’t hardly blame them. I’d want blood, too, had I been in their shoes. This is a “fog of war” story and nothing more. It has been turned into a story of English Brutality and the application of “Tarleton’s Quarter” because, well, we won, and the victor writes the history. To the poor Continental who had assumed that he had surrendered and was expecting quarter, though, I’m sure such semantics would seem trivial.