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Did the French turn up to outflank them?

Asherian Command wrote:

Albatross wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:I launched Fireworks with my friends and we shot them at our neighbors.

Were they Brits?

Yes They were.

See,not only could you have lost an eye,but now we may have to fight "that" war again,you kids and your silly hi jinks.

No worries Fitzz. We'd crush them again.

Albatross wrote:Did the French turn up to outflank them?

Are you watching me? Because we have french people her.e

No doubt you do. Never afraid to ask king Louie for a hand are we uncle sam.

Fateweaver wrote:No worries Fitzz. We'd crush them again.

Only this time,can we settle our differences with a giant drinking/wet T-shirt contest...it just seems like it would be alot more entertaining.

Only if I still get to shoot something.

Maybe I could shoot the horse faced girls so that nobody has to suffer what might be UNDER those white tshirts.

Fateweaver wrote:No worries Fitzz. We'd crush them again.

Pahahaha! You didn't 'crush' us last time! Is that how it's taught over there?

The war was costing more than it was worth - the West Indies' economic output was many times greater than the 13 colonies and we kept them (in fact I think we may have even ADDED some...). Public opinion turned against the war, and after Cornwallis fethed himself the will to carry on was just gone. The British Empire could have quite comfortably dispatched another 250,000 regulars and burned every single city to the ground, but they would have been Brits they were slaughtering. That was never going to happen. Don't believe me? Look at how the Empire put down mutinies in India!


Oh, and Paul Revere never said 'The British are coming!'. He was British.

Every time I go to the first page I get a malware warning about the source link for one of the pictures posted. Dunno if thats been discussed, I'm not going back to page 1.

Albatross wrote:Did the French turn up to outflank them?

The french probably hid in the pool with a small flotation device with firecrackers on it just in case the british neighbors thought it was safe to jump in there.


Anyways, Happy Belated 4th of July.

Saw in the news today that some guy in NY blew his hand off using a firecracker, that's extra patriotic.

To quote a famous American,

Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it.

Fateweaver wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:I launched Fireworks with my friends and we shot them at our neighbors. And not only that but we also had C4 fire works which glow bright. Roman Candle wars are fun too.

Ah yes. This example is why I love it when God selects the random idiot out of millions of random idiots to die next. Makes for a good read in the paper.

KC. Not sure we are related but at least we both know how to celebrate our freedom.

I agree on both those parts

Albatross wrote:The war was costing more than it was worth - the West Indies' economic output was many times greater than the 13 colonies and we kept them (in fact I think we may have even ADDED some...). Public opinion turned against the war, and after Cornwallis fethed himself the will to carry on was just gone. The British Empire could have quite comfortably dispatched another 250,000 regulars and burned every single city to the ground, but they would have been Brits they were slaughtering. That was never going to happen. Don't believe me? Look at how the Empire put down mutinies in India!

Well, yeah, costing the other guy more troops than he's willing to lose, so he gives up and goes home is how you win. Losing more troops than it's worth to you is called losing.

All that sounds a lot like when the US posters here try to claim the US didn't really lose Vietnam.

ShumaGorath wrote:Every time I go to the first page I get a malware warning about the source link for one of the pictures posted. Dunno if thats been discussed, I'm not going back to page 1.

Page 1 also has NSFW images. Thankfully, someone put up the NSFW text in the title of the thread.

sebster wrote:

Albatross wrote:The war was costing more than it was worth - the West Indies' economic output was many times greater than the 13 colonies and we kept them (in fact I think we may have even ADDED some...). Public opinion turned against the war, and after Cornwallis fethed himself the will to carry on was just gone. The British Empire could have quite comfortably dispatched another 250,000 regulars and burned every single city to the ground, but they would have been Brits they were slaughtering. That was never going to happen. Don't believe me? Look at how the Empire put down mutinies in India!

Well, yeah, costing the other guy more troops than he's willing to lose, so he gives up and goes home is how you win. Losing more troops than it's worth to you is called losing.

All that sounds a lot like when the US posters here try to claim the US didn't really lose Vietnam.

Except of course, we made a large portion of their army actually surrender.

Short answer: We cost the King George more than he was willing to spend in $$$ and men at that time. Plain and simple.

So, he gave up and focused on India, which is where his Bottom Bitch, at that time. As any pimp will tell you, your Bottom Bitch brings in the most bling.

sebster wrote:

Albatross wrote:The war was costing more than it was worth - the West Indies' economic output was many times greater than the 13 colonies and we kept them (in fact I think we may have even ADDED some...). Public opinion turned against the war, and after Cornwallis fethed himself the will to carry on was just gone. The British Empire could have quite comfortably dispatched another 250,000 regulars and burned every single city to the ground, but they would have been Brits they were slaughtering. That was never going to happen. Don't believe me? Look at how the Empire put down mutinies in India!

Well, yeah, costing the other guy more troops than he's willing to lose, so he gives up and goes home is how you win. Losing more troops than it's worth to you is called losing.

All that sounds a lot like when the US posters here try to claim the US didn't really lose Vietnam.

We lost. I know we lost. WELOSTWELOSTWELOSTWELOSTWELOST!


Better?

The thing I took issue with was Fateweaver saying they 'crushed' us. That's not an accurate assessment of what actually happened. Neither do I think that the US army was 'crushed' in the Vietnam War, for what it's worth. They just lost.

Frazzled wrote:Except of course, we made a large portion of their army actually surrender.

...and the VC/NVA made an even larger portion of your army actually DIE. What's your point?

I'm not really sure why this thread went from pics of girls to an argument over the American Revolution. Can we try to not get into a flame war over it though? It happened awhile ago and I don't think comparing Vietnam to it is responsible either. A lot of men and women died in both conflicts and we should honour their sacrifices more than whatever ideal was fought for at the time.

Oh Albatross, they killed our guys and we killed a lot more of them, but we won. After all, we can import foreign media and don't think our leader is a god even though he can't ride most rollercoasters.


But, that's how america celebrates its freedom. We use the first amendment to argue over any little thing.

I don't really like Dodge, but I accept full-heartedly.




Best 4th of July EVER!

halonachos wrote:Oh Albatross, they killed our guys and we killed a lot more of them, but we won. After all, we can import foreign media and don't think our leader is a god even though he can't ride most rollercoasters.


But, that's how america celebrates its freedom. We use the first amendment to argue over any little thing.

vietnam does not equal korea

Albatross wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:No worries Fitzz. We'd crush them again.

Pahahaha! You didn't 'crush' us last time! Is that how it's taught over there?

The war was costing more than it was worth - the West Indies' economic output was many times greater than the 13 colonies and we kept them (in fact I think we may have even ADDED some...). Public opinion turned against the war, and after Cornwallis fethed himself the will to carry on was just gone. The British Empire could have quite comfortably dispatched another 250,000 regulars and burned every single city to the ground, but they would have been Brits they were slaughtering. That was never going to happen. Don't believe me? Look at how the Empire put down mutinies in India!


Oh, and Paul Revere never said 'The British are coming!'. He was British.

Bah, I still like Roy Obanans version: "Well Jon, The British had the worlds finest army, we had a bunch of farmers with pitchforks and we beat em like a drum."

What about 1812? I'm not a historian or anything but Britain did win that one.

No. It was a stalemate. Neither side wanted to continue, so they signed the Treaty of Ghent which pretty much set things back as they were, prior to the war. The only real losers were the Indians.

Well, their all dead now. So they got fethed the most.

Also Britain did defeat Napolean and Hitler. Give them a break.

Well both times they had Russias help. Whoa, did I just remember something I read? Sweet.

Hitler was not defeated by the Russians and British...They had a "little" help... You need to review your history there.

But I thought you guys went straight after the Japanise?

Also I did say i'm not a historian. I just watch alot of TV.

Um.. Well then... Watch: Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers, Battle of the Bulge, Patton, this list can get longer... and I am sure Dakkaites will help me here..

thegrav wrote:Hitler was not defeated by the Russians and British...They had a "little" help... You need to review your history there.

Nah, it was pretty much the Russians. I know you're referring to the US as the help but realistically the Russkies would've steamrolled the Krauts just fine without our 'little' help.