Guerrilla Gardening Excellent post with some GREAT links. You need to be thinking like this with everything you do in regards to Preparedness. Time is Short and the Stakes are High.
Category: History Roundup
Requiem for a Culture Part 4: The Amelia Christmas Parade
H/T WRSA Requiem for a Culture Part 4: The Amelia Christmas Parade This is the fourth essay in an occasional series. Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” -William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, Act I, Scene III (page 80 in the Vintage paperback edition)
Know Your Western History: Jim Bowie and the Vidalia Sandbar Fight
Jim Bowie and the Vidalia Sandbar Fight “In years past there was a formal process by which the more hotheaded among us could vent their frustrations. Dueling as a method for gaining satisfaction or defending one’s honor against perceived affront is as old as mankind. The gory practice was first outlawed by the Fourth…
Drive-by History by Mike Austin
Drive-by History by Mike Austin Take careful note of the CAUSES of these EVENTS. Look familiar? Some Great advice: It is well and good and healthy to “no longer care much about day-to-day abuses and usurpations”. As this point in the game of History and life worrying and caring about this, about that and about…
Know Your History: Weimar Germany (1919-1933)
A Social-Democratic Sexual Free-for-All where Traditional Christian morals and ethics were shunned and Deviant behaviors such as Transgenderism and Homosexuality were celebrated. Sound Familiar? The Historical Record is Clear as to what happens to Societies like this. Check out this Hilarious Article with some good pictures HERE. …
Know Your Weapons: The Lewes Bomb
WHO DARES WINS with a Lewes Bomb! BBC is currently running a Six episode series titled SAS Rogue Heroes based on the book by Ben MacIntyre. I have only watched half of it so far but from what I have seen I like it.
Requiem for a Culture Part 3: The Battle of Staunton River Bridge
Requiem for a Culture, Part 3: The Battle of Staunton River Bridge On June 23rd General Lee sent word to Captain Benjamin Farinholt, who commanded a battalion of reserves charged with defending the bridge, warning him that the Federals were about to come down hard on him, and ordering him to prevent the bridge…
Requiem for a Culture: Parts 1 and 2
H/T WRSA Requiem for a Culture, Part 1: The Sentinel Requiem for a Culture, Part 2: The Battle Flag
Know Your WW1 History: Steering a Steam Roller – The German Invasion of France in 1914
Steering a Steamroller Bear in mind the German’s did this operation TWICE. Once in 1914 with infantry and again in 1940 with tanks and infantry (Blitzkrieg) which only took 46 days. What a difference 26 years makes.
Know Your Southern History: Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA
Cleburne Part I: The Making of an Irish-Southern Nationalist The following is a four-part series on the life of Major General Patrick Cleburne, C.S.A. It derives heavily from two sources, “Cleburne and His Command,” by Captain Irving A. Buck, C.S.A., (1908), and “Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne & the Civil War,” by Professor Craig…