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Weekend
Ramblings
Is it really necessary for the cable channels to
have commercials up on screen during whatever
they are showing. I could really care
less when the next episode of "BREAKING
BAD" is when I'm trying to watch DRACULA. --
Nice to not be
spending the weekend in the hospital.
Looking forward, with apprehension, to watching
the THUNDER play the LAKERS again
tonight. Hope the outcome is the
same. --
PROM NIGHT in our part of Edmond tonight.
How well I remember the PROM, and how
disappointing it was. Sort of like a
New Year's Eve Party, seldom live up to
expectations, even with a good date. --
When those who don't belong here (Illegals) begin
to riot and cause trouble in Arizona, watch Obama
and the media justify their behavior. When
taxpaying Americans demonstrate for their
Constitutional rights, they mock them.
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On
this day in 1781, British General Lord Charles
Cornwallis retreats to Wilmington, North
Carolina, after being defeated at Guilford
Courthouse by 4,500 Continental Army soldiers
and militia under the command of American Major
General Nathanael Greene.
With
Cornwallis defeat, the British task of defending
North Carolina fell to a young Irish-born
nobleman, Francis, Lord Rawdon, an officer of
marked ability, who went on to execute an
unlikely victory over Greene at Hobkirk s Hill,
a ridge just north of Camden, North Carolina.
 Rawdon,
who was being provided information on the
Continentals movements by British Loyalists,
learned of the movements of General Greene and
his troops. A deserter from the Continental Army
informed Rawdon about the precarious supply
situation of the Continental Army, and the
commander sprung into action. Although
outnumbered by a Continental Army of 1,174 men
to Rawdon s 800 British troops, the British
managed to surprise Greene and the Continentals
at Hobkirk s Hill. Although casualties were
approximately the same on each side, the British
won a tactical victory, taking the field. Greene
retreated, but managed to save his supplies and
artillery, while Rawdon and the British fell
back to Charleston, South Carolina.
Upon
his return to England, King George III honored
Lord Rawdon with his own peerage as Baron Rawdon
in March 1783. Six years later, Rawdon added his
mother s surname, Hastings, to his own. With his
father s death in 1793, Rawdon-Hastings became
the second earl of Moira. He served as the
governor general of India beginning in 1813.
Proving his military and diplomatic prowess, he
gained Nepal, Marathas and Singapore for the
crown. These successes led to yet another new
title, the marquees of Hastings.
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