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cite="mid20041003135134.0B08E11D243@listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
type="cite"><>Message: 1<br>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:05:58 -0400<br>
From: John McGibney <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ncicchek@optonline.net"><ncicchek@optonline.net></a><br>
Subject: Re: [Ti] 802.11G TiBook<br>
To: "A place to discuss Apple's Titanium computers."<br>
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> The API and UPI reported today that the French government announced<br>
> it has raised the terror alert level from "hide" to "run." The
only two <br>
> higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate."<br>
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cite="mid20041003135134.0B08E11D243@listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
type="cite"><>This may have been precipitated by the recent fire which
destroyed one<br>
of their White Flag factories, disabling their military for the time
being.</><br>
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How do you say, "Give me liberty or give me death!" in French?
"I give up."
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And what has that to do with the Tibook? I cannot believe I'm on the
same list as<br>
someone THAT dumb, ignorant, prejudiced and offensive -- Go and ask
Washington <br>
what he thought of Lafayette, Rochambeau and de Grasse when they and
their soldiers <br>
(and French money) saved his skin (and your nascent country) from the
Brits in Yorktown! <br>
<br>
Extract from "The Battle of Yorktown" chronicles:<br>
<br>
"When General Rochambeau met General Washington in 1781 to determine
their next move <br>
against the British, Washington wanted to attack New York City.
Rochambeau convinced <br>
him that the wiser move was to move South. Word had come from General
Lafayette in <br>
Virginia that Cornwallis had taken up a defensive position at Yorktown.
Cornwallis was <br>
situated next to the York River. If they could surround the city by
land and cut off Cornwallis' <br>
escape route on the river, Washington and Rochambeau would strike an
enormous blow <br>
to the British forces. Planning for the elaborate campaign began
immediately.
<p>French Admiral de Grasse, stationed in the West Indies, would sail
with his fleet to the <br>
Chesapeake Bay and secure the mouth of the York River. Meanwhile,
Washington and <br>
Rochambeau would march south to Yorktown and form a semicircle around
the city. <br>
The plan was simple in concept, but it would take great military skill
to execute." </p>
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