Seven minutes on the Red River of the southern U.S., the fickle border of Texas and Oklahoma, the river of story and legend. Good for a map study, good for the fun of it — how much do you really know about the Red River?
George Washington did not cross the Red River; George Washington may not have known the river even existed. His loss.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Past in the Present has this wonderful, terse post up:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
Unless you’re a Hessian.
Passage of the Delaware, by Thomas Sully (1819). Now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
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