The Union victory at Vicksburg happened on July 4, 1863.
It is time to celebrate.
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Celebrate Jule 3rd and the 4th!
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Celebrate Jule 3rd and the 4th!
The Union victory at Gettysburg happened on July 3, 1863.
The Union victory at Vicksburg happened on July 4, 1863.
It is time to celebrate.
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The Union victory at Vicksburg happened on July 4, 1863.
It is time to celebrate.
(we need some dancing emoticons)
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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Sea Skimmer
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Lonestarspeak for July.
Mods, can you fix it?
Mods, can you fix it?
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?
Hurrah anyway!
Hurrah anyway!
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
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"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
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That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
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Yes, two of the largest Union victories in the American Civil War. Gettysburg was a large field engagement in Pennsylvania. While the fall of Vicksburg remove that last Southern bastion on the Mississippi river, leaving it firmly in the control of the Union. Among other things it allowed for Union farmers in the east to begin exporting there grain once again. It also cut the Confederacy off from the beef of Texas and its main mercury supply, a key component of percussion caps.Gandalf wrote:I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Gandalf wrote:I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?
Hurrah anyway!
The two biggest Confederate defeats of the war.
Within two days of each other.
total 50,000(mostly confederate) fatalities at Gettysburg, 30,000 Confederates surrendered at Vicksburg.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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By the middle of June, the invasion hour having come and gone, Hitler established another "firm" date to open Citadel—on July 4. It was to be a date, remarked the chief of staff of the XLVIII Panzer Corps in a blunt appreciation of what Citadel was all about, that was "Independence Day for America and the beginning of the end for Germany."
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
