At 07:08 AM 11/13/99 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/11/99 6:17:23 PM Central Standard Time, >wlockhart@brooksdata.net writes: > >It was not The English Army, It was the british Army. The Kings Army. Which >included Irish, Welsh Scottish English and Highland, as well as the famed >Immigent Regiments. The reason I act so strongly to this remark is that we >of the United Kingdom but not of English birth, are very quick to agree that >it was the bloody sodding English who dominated India, ripped off the West >Indies, Imerial Bastards everyone of those bloody Limie sodders. He is right you know, at the time the US was not worth the fight in the grand scheme of things. Many on us Americans don't really lose sight of that but it is that we are never taught that in our school history. Great book on the subject is "The First Salute" by I forget who :). Gary