Stephen M. Kohler
26-12-2007, 04:25 PM
All Sixteenth. Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and several Nineteenth Century American wars fought on foreign and domestic soil were British family affairs. Through the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries the majority of antagonists on either side of the battle field were of British stock. In the later Eighteenth Century and the first half of the Nineteenth Century Americans of British stock were joined by larger numbers of Irish Americans and German Americans due primarily to the nature of immigration into the United States. The American British stock are clearly represented by such names as Rogers, Clark, Merriweather, Lincoln, Wright, Jackson, Sheridan, Grant, Lee, Thomas, Johnson, Smith, Clifford, and Cleburne throughout the histories of American wars.
Consider the many thousands of Britons who crossed the Atlantic to fight in the American Civil War and then the many thousands of Americans that crossed the Atlantic to fight in WWI and WWII. The British interests in American wars are every bit as serious as the American interests in British wars and exhibits an intimacy that only a family might understand.
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Stephen
Washington, DC
Consider the many thousands of Britons who crossed the Atlantic to fight in the American Civil War and then the many thousands of Americans that crossed the Atlantic to fight in WWI and WWII. The British interests in American wars are every bit as serious as the American interests in British wars and exhibits an intimacy that only a family might understand.
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Stephen
Washington, DC