Now there is something that changed the world..ABATTBQ87 said:
November 4 1939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
BQ78 said:
That's not correct. The Jewish Order kicked the sutlers and merchants, many of them Jewish, out of his camp. It was written anti-Semetically and blamed the Jewish merchants unfairly. But Jews served under him the entire war and were not removed from his army.
BQ78 said:
That's not correct. The Jewish Order kicked the sutlers and merchants, many of them Jewish, out of his camp. It was written anti-Semetically and blamed the Jewish merchants unfairly. But Jews served under him the entire war and were not removed from his army.
#OnThisDay 1941 Battleship HMS BARHAM struck by 3 torpedoes from U-331 in the Mediterranean. She capsizes to port & sinks within 4 mins after a massive explosion. 862 men were killed from a ships company of over 1200. I cannot imagine the terror of those 4 minutes. pic.twitter.com/75igC0FkXE
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The Grass Fight, on November 26, 1835, became the last engagement in the siege of San Antonio before the final Texan assault on the town Bexar.. In November Col. Domingo de Ugartechea had left San Antonio with a cavalry escort to guide reinforcements to the garrison commanded by Gen. Martn Perfecto de Cos. After the departure of Stephen F. Austin to represent Texas in the United States, the Texan army elected as commander Col. Edward Burleson, who continued to harass Cos while scouting for the return of Ugartechea.
On November 26 Erastus "Deaf" Smith rode into the Texas camp in mid-morning with information that Mexican cavalry with pack animals were approaching San Antonio. Texas soldiers wondered if the column might be carrying pay for the Mexican army. Burleson ordered James Bowie and forty cavalry to delay the Mexicans' progress. A hundred Texas infantry under William H. Jack followed Bowie to seize the supply train. The two cavalry forces of about equal size began to skirmish west of town and soon fought on foot from ravines near Alazan Creek. Cos sent about fifty infantry with an artillery piece to help oppose the Texan attack. The Texas infantry broke out of a crossfire from the two Mexican units and pushed them back. Mexican troops counterattacked four times until Texas reinforcements under James Swisher caused them to pull back into the town. Texas losses included four wounded, while Mexican losses numbered three dead and fourteen wounded, mostly among the cavalry. When the Texans brought in forty captured pack animals they discovered their prizes carried only grass to feed army animals.
Today, 344 years ago, we lost the greatest sculptor known to mankind, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
— Muse (@xmuse_) November 28, 2024
Let's discover 21 of his most iconic masterpieces
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Unless you're a real Civil War buff, meaning, you're fairly knowledgeable about Civil War-era small arms, you're not likely to have much interest in the news that Confederate General Patrick R. Cleburne .36 caliber Colt revolver is coming to Franklin, Tennessee. The revolver will be displayed with his Kepi, or hat, that he was wearing on the evening he was killed in the Battle of Franklin on 30 November 1864. But you don't have to be a Civil War afficionado to appreciate a great story, and the story of how Cleburne's pistol is making its way back to Franklin, after more than 143 years, is quite amazing.
The story behind how the Cleburne pistol ended up in the worthy possession of the Layland Museum in Cleburne, Texas, has all the intrigue of a mystery-novel and the hoopla, at times, of a story right out of Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not.
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The bodies of four Confederate Generals were placed on the back porch at Carnton on Thursday morning, December 1st, 1864. Besides Patrick Cleburne, it is believed that Generals Strahl, Granbury and Adams's bodies were placed on the porch, beneath the windows on the right.
What happened with the pistol between 1864 and 1900 is a real mystery.
The next 30 years roughly 1870s to 1900 were murky history at best. We're really not sure what exactly happened with the pistol during that period of time.
The story can be fairly confidently picked up in the mid 1890s, though with some reliance upon the veracity of oral tradition. It seems that a Texas man, perhaps a veteran Confederate soldier or descendant, had found himself as owner of the 'precious'. However, in the mid 1890s he found himself down on his luck and decided to sell the pistol to improve his lot. So the pistol transfered into the hands about this time to a man named Seakrats.
Seakrats, circa 1900, apparently recognized the inscription on the weapon enough to decide that a local Confederate Veterans Camp Pat Cleburne Camp #88 might be the right home for the revolver. So Seakrats turned the precious relic over to the Pat Cleburne Camp #88 around the turn of the twentieth century. Does the story end there? Not even close.
What happened to the pistol from 1900 to roughly 1913?
The Captain of Camp #88 was O.T. Plummer. In an effort to verify the pistol as having originally been owned by Cleburne, he had the Camp Adjutant, Matthew Kahle, take the gun to Helena, Arkansas. Cleburne lived in Helena prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Post-war veterans and colleagues of Cleburne still lived there and were able to attest to its authenticity. The Helena group verified it as unequivocally having belonged to Patrick Cleburne. However they thought the best home for it would be Helena. But, not feeling he was authorized to give it to them, Kahle returned to Cleburne, Texas named after the General with said-treasure in stow.
So, from 1900 1913, the much-coveted relic was in the possession of a man named James Voluntine Hampton in Cleburne, Texas. The story continues and the twists and turns got even wilder.
A day like today we celebrate Saint Andrew the Apostle. Saint Andrew was condemned to death and crucified in Patras, for the accusations of converting many people to Christianity. His agony lasted three days. Romans mocked Andrew's Christianity by tilting his cross so that it… pic.twitter.com/tK1uNXJkwP
— Gusano (@mistergusano) November 30, 2024
Learning moment. You have grace with missing by one day, maybe two if subject is worthy. ....PaulDicton said:
This day in 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis starts .