Attrition does strange things to people. The peace after extended exposure to violence can lead even the strongest to relax and forget their first duty: to protect themselves. Putting your fate in another's hands is risky, like at the Siege of Fort William Henry in 1757.
1/ As he watched the shells of the French siege guns pound into the walls of his fort, British Lieutenant-Colonel George Monro knew the only thing that could break the French and Indian siege around his beleaguered command was a British force commanded by General Daniel Webb…
2/ …who sat less than a days march away. Monro’s mixed force of British Regular and Provincial Battalions from across Yankeedom were trapped on the southern banks of Lake George by a French Army who, with their native allies, outnumbered the British 3:1.
3/ As the cannon pounded the defenders inside and the French siege lines crept closer to the timber walls of Fort William Henry, a messenger reached Monro from General Webb. The British General would send no help to his brother in arms.
4/ His situation hopeless, Colonel Monro marched out to meet the commander of the French/Indian forces, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, to discuss terms of his surrender.
5/ The 2,500 defenders and their families inside Fort William Henry counted on Monro to secure them a good deal, and he did not let them down. The French agreed to allow the British to leave the fort, under French guard, and essentially parole themselves back home.
6/ The British could keep their muskets, but they were to turn all of their powder and ammunition over to the French.
While the French could be trusted to obey the terms of the surrender, their allies, nearly 2,000 Odawa, Abenaki, and Potawatomi natives could not.
7/ Even had they wanted to, the language of their French masters and the customs of European battles were as foreign to them as the heavy artillery.
As soon as the British started marching out of the surrendered fort, natives in search of war loot streamed in.
8/ Unable to find anything valuable in the smoldering ruins, they began digging up graves of British dead (including Captain Richard Rogers, brother of the more well known Robert who would go one to write some rules, and massacre an entire Abenaki village in retaliation)
9/ When that yielded little, they began angrily hacking to death the sick and wounded British who had been left in the care of the French doctors. The British officers protested this violation, and the French promised to help.
10/ Despite the real possibility he could not control his allies, General Montcalm did not return the ammunition to the British soldiers to allow them to defend themselves. As the main British body marched down the frontier trail towards home, they were shadowed by the natives.
11/ Far from the large attack pictured in the movies, the violence grew gradually, like a series of armed robberies.
12/ When the British protested natives stealing their clothes, tools, and weapons from their hands, they were told by their French “protectors” to just appease the natives, hand over their possessions, and they would go away. Go away they did not.
13/ Again unsatisfied, Abenaki warriors rushed the column, and started dragging men, women, and children off into captivity. When the British tried to resist, they were murdered by a native tomahawk or war club.
14/ Men who the day before had stood in battle against the Empire of France watched helplessly as their wives and children either died, hacked to pieces under a native blade, or were carried off into slavery.
15/ Some Frenchmen tried to intervene, and some did nothing, watching as unarmed men, women, and children died by the dozens.
16/ Precise numbers of British killed by the natives are unknown, estimates range from 200-1,500 with the number of captives sold into native slavery being in the hundreds.
17/ As the screams of the slaughter occurring in the rear reached the front of the column, the once proud soldiers broke and scattered into the woods, leaving their comrades in the rear to their fates in an attempt to save themselves.
18/ Monro and some of his men were sheltered by Montcalm, while hundreds of less connected soldiers and their families hid and awaited their fates, unarmed and powerless to save their own lives.
19/ We all know the argument… “sensible” or “common sense” gun “reform” measures. But we know the truth, they want us unarmed. Whether it is due to their utopian vision of society, or something more sinister, the goal remains the same.
20/ They see guns as the evil, but we recognize that since the dawn of history the evil is in man and weapons have helped protect the good from the bad.
21/ Evil’s predilection towards violence combined with their lack of morality make them more effective fighters than most of the population: the gun is what evens those odds.
They claim that the police, or someone, will protect us from the evils of the world. But that is a lie.
22/ The battle to maintain our autonomy, and our god given right to self-defense has been a long one, one that can easily wear you down. “Common-sense” sounds fine, fewer criminals with guns is good. But they are coming for ours too, and we can not give them an inch of ground.
23/ For whatever reason we own guns, defense against tyranny, fun, larping, flexing on the poors, pouring olive oil into: the right to self defense is the first. No one will defend your family like you will. A gun is what defines you as an autonomous citizen. Never surrender
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There is no justice in the world unless we make it. You might luck out and the system works in your favor
But if you have to snatch and grab and do an extraordinary rendition of the pedo that killed your daughter on your own, then you do it
The story of Kalinka Bamberski
In 1982, a healthy and athletic 14 year old French girl named Kalinka Bamberski died suddenly in Lindau, Bavaria while vacationing with her mother and step-father.
Her father Andre fought for over three decades, and against three governments to bring her killer to justice.
Kalinka's stepfather, Doctor Dieter Krombach, admitted to having given Kalinka an "iron injection" to help her tan, and also a sleeping pill. She was found dead the next morning.
A very rural (typical for backwoods Bavaria) autopsy revealed some startling discoveries.
The tactics of Generals can win battles and maneuver the enemy to defeat. But if the enemy refuses to be defeated, refuses to succumb to the norms, and stands their ground against the storm then no tactics can defeat them. Like the charge of the Imperial Guard at Waterloo.
1. By 1815 the Napoleonic Wars was on its last legs. Napoleon had won fame and glory with a simple formula: Spread the enemy out, gather your strength and overpower a small part of the enemy line. Time and time again, it worked. Break one part of the enemy line and they all run
2. Napoleon loved the column formation. Instead of spreading his men out in long thin lines, he massed them like a hammer, marched them straight at a terrified enemy, and broke them like glass.
All kidding aside this Antifa thing has a chance to get spicy. It has before
Not to dox myself but I worked for this company that had a huge footprint in Germany, and one day their head of Executive Protection (good dude, former Legionnaire, shot together) asked me for some help
He took me down to the armored garage and the “arms room” where there were no shit racks of full auto MP5s, Uzis, and crates of grenades.
He said back in the 70s and 80s this was standard issue to all EP groups because of the Red Army Factions killing CEOs and hijacking planes.
We did the inventory and the Bundeswehr came and picked it all up, (he didn’t even give me an MP5 as a thank you) but I never forgot that before we got distracted by Islam, (which the commies used to their advantage) we fought a decades long hot war with the Communists.
These people are idiots. They talk in these grandiose self important sentences that don’t mean anything. Also, they have no understanding of how LE works.
Remember; Occam says blame the mentally ill. And they are
2. LE fakes.
Probability: Low
Why? They have lots of evidence already. They have cooperating witnesses and physical evidence. Dude is going away. They risk all of that to run up the score. Besides it is too quick and cops are slow.
The thing about political assassinations is they almost always backfire.
Killing Caesar got you the Triumvirate 2
Lincoln got you reconstruction
Ghandis ended Hindu nationalism
MLK JFK etc
Leaders on the left know this. And fear us
They know regular conservatives aren’t lone wolf killer types. We aren’t laying on rooftops to kill a political celebrity. We have too much to lose yes, but that is not how we flex our power
What they fear is our turning our backs on them. Our indifference to their causes.
Most conservatives believe in America. And we believe that most Americans just want a good America.
At least we did. Over the past few years that belief has eroded to the point of vanishing. The left has pushed and pushed and now they see us about to push back
“Air supremacy” is a broad term. But a general definition is you can hit whatever you want from the air, and the enemy can not. Sure, people still will get shot down. But the mission is a success.
The Serbs shot down an F-117, no one is saying we didn’t have air supremacy in Kosovo
Same in 1944-1945 in Europe. The Allies bombed what they wanted, and the Luftwaffe could not return the favor: still men died, but its war.