Sipsey Street Irregulars: See you Saturday at Guilford Court House.

Monday, August 9, 2010

See you Saturday at Guilford Court House.

The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781 in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. A force of 1,900 British troops under the command of General Lord Cornwallis defeated an American force of 4,000 under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene.

Despite the relatively small numbers of troops involved, the battle is considered decisive. Before the battle, the British appeared to have successfully reconquered Georgia and South Carolina with the aid of strong Loyalist factions, and thought that North Carolina might be within their grasp. In the wake of the battle, Greene moved into South Carolina, while Cornwallis chose to invade Virginia. These decisions allowed Greene to unravel British control of the South, while leading Cornwallis to Yorktown and surrender. -- Wikipedia.

I will be speaking at the Restore the Constitution Rally at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in North Carolina on Saturday, 14 August. The 220 acre GCNMP is the nation’s first national park established at a Revolutionary War site, and among the 28 monuments on the battlefield is a memorial containing the graves of two of North Carolina’s signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Hooper and John Penn. Thus, it will be somewhat of a pilgrimage for me, as I have never been there.

I look forward to seeing y'all there.

Mike
III

7 comments:

PKL said...: It sounds interesting. I might go. Not sure yet, but I might. Do you know if bayonets are allowed?; August 9, 2010 at 3:56 AM
Anonymous said...: I and another IIIper will be there, it should be a great time and weather looks to be good.
TomIII; August 9, 2010 at 7:42 AM
Sean said...: Cornwallis lost 28% of his men killed, and calls it a victory. Sure he wasn't French?; August 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM
d3vnull said...: I will be there!; August 9, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Chris said...: I will be there to take pictures. I will of course send you links to them.; August 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Dennis308 said...: Mike please watch out for your feet, Keep ´em dry and cool.
I can´t make it I´m as broke as I´V ever been in my life. the little money I had picked up I had to spend on my Grandson´s doctors bill. He went to the Hospital for a severe Asthma attack, we did´t even know he had asthma.

Dennis
III
Texas; August 9, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Anonymous said...: and i look forward to your speech.; August 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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See you Saturday at Guilford Court House.

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