Re: HUMOUR> General History of French Warfare

Ray Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Wooly Baa Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Anyway, it's properly called the "War Between the States."
>>
>> (more seriously)
>>
>> Not in the south it's not.  Even 140 years later, in the south it is
>> still often called the "war of northern agression".
>
> What would you have called it if you had won?

I dunno.  The Confederate Revolution?
The 2nd War for Independance?


>> And arguably, rightly so.
>
> Who started it, anyhow?  :-)

I'm sure it started when Tommy kicked Bobby under the table when mom
wasn't looking.  Isn't that how all fights "start"?


Lest anyone think otherwise, I am NOT arguing that the South was right.
Only that their position had a valid legal argument.  Prior to the civil
war, there was no assumption that the U.S. as indivisible.  States had
the ultimate authority, not the federal government.  Thus if a state
wanted to leave the union, there is a valid argument that they had the
right to do so.

What's even more astonishing is that there seems to be 2 ways of
teaching this portion of US History in schools.  What I stated above was
actively taught when I was in school (1970's) in Greenville, TX.  It is
a version Dalene never heard going to school in Colorado....

Side note: who saw the movie "Gods and Generals"?  I thought it was one
of the best movies of the year.
(the movie exemplifies the difference in how history is presented)

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