in 1814 our invasion of Canada under General Jacob Brown was given the finger by the Canadians at the battle of Lundy's Lane. Remember General Jacob Jennings Brown? No? that's too bad, since after helping one Alexander Hamilton win a thing called the Revolutionary war, he would eventually be the guy to create the Army's first post graduate schools, and championed higher education for enlisted men. He won the Congressional Gold Medal (the for-runner of the congressional medal of honor) and would lead the army as it's highest general under later presidents like Monroe. Oh, yeah, and he
1903 U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles invaded Puerto Rico supporting it's "claim" of independence from Columbia; a manufactured nonsense propagated by the French Panama Canal company and US industrialists to take the isthmus by force specifically to build the canal. Just one of many unsavory American actions during the "bananna wars".
This morning we did some rearranging/repacking of the rentastowage... My back is now screeching, so I'm drinking some icy coffeecola and starting an old film on youtube;
It's a Sam Fuller film, so ought to be good. It's a French Foreign Legion movie set in the second Indochina War (right before the vietnam war) and has Nat King Cole and Lee Van Cleef among others...
