Walking The Ground

03/06/2025

Intrigued. What will the news be?

A major announcement about the Alamo is coming tomorrow morning, March 6, on Good Morning America.

For over 300 years, the Alamo has stood as a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and history. Now, an exciting new discovery is set to add another layer to its remarkable story. Be among the first to hear the news as Good Morning America exclusively unveils a groundbreaking revelation about the Alamo's history.

When to Watch:
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Beginning at 7 AM Central
ABC’s Good Morning America (Check local listings for air time)

03/05/2025

Amazing art ftom G.Rava art.

03/05/2025

Samuel C**t established the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company March 5, 1836.

C**t's factory in Paterson, New Jersey manufactured 2,350 revolvers between 1836 and 1842.

The "C**t Paterson" revolvers were popular on the frontier for their readily available firepower. Captain John Coffee Hays of the Texas Rangers armed his men each with a brace of Paterson revolvers. At the Battle of Bandera Pass against the Comanche in 1841, Hays and 50 men held their ground against 4-times their number thanks to their Paterson revolvers.

Today, a C**t Paterson revolver can sell at auction for $250,000.

https://thebryanmuseum.org/project/colt-paterson-revolver-called-the-texas-colt

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03/05/2025

I hope His Excellency the Comte de Rochambeau had better weather in 1781 on his way to Yorktown than we’re having today.

03/05/2025

We will not be touring Rev War battlefields of the Philadelphia Campaign today, due to weather conditions. The tour will be rescheduled.

03/05/2025

Threads Day.

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03/04/2025

The fascinating story of Joseph Brant, also known as Thayendanegea, a political and military leader of the Mohawk Nation, who fought alongside the British during the French and Indian War and the American War of Independence.

Joseph Brant was born this month in 1742 to Mohawk parents living in the Ohio territory.

Given the Mohawk name Thayendanegea, His father died while Joseph was an infant. In the mid 1750’s his mother moved back to her home settlement of Canajoharie (near modern day Little Falls) and remarried. It was through his stepfather that Thayendanegea would become known as Joseph Brant.

Read his full story in the link here: https://www.nps.gov/people/joseph-brant-thayendanegea.htm

03/04/2025

The Castle Hill Rebellion, 4-5 March 1804. A convict rebellion in the British colony of New South Wales led by veterans of the Irish Rebellion of 1789.

On 4 March, the rebels overpowered their guards and seized weapons. The colony’s governor declared martial law and called out the militia and ordered them to suppress the rebellion.

Although the rebels outnumbered the government forces they were poorly armed and during fighting at Castle Hill on 5 March they were literally outgunned.

Around 230 rebels were captured. Nine ringleaders were hanged. Seven were whipped, receiving 500 lashes. Twenty-three we’re sentenced to hard labour in mines. Thirty-four were sentenced to a chain gang. Others were pardoned, but still prisoners, and continued to serve to their sentences as convict labour throughout the colony.

The uprising was the first rebellion in Australia to be suppressed by martial law.

03/04/2025

Marquis De Lafayette statue in Havre De Grace, Maryland. The French military officer served as a Major General in the Continental Army under George Washington.

While passing through what was then known as Harmer’s Town in 1782 (Washington’s troops crossed the Susquehanna here several times), Lafayette remarked «C’est Le Harve» as the riverside community reminded him of the French port Le Harve, Normandy. The town was incorporated as Havre de Grace in 1785.

Lafayette returned to HdG in 1825 during his valedictory tour of the United States. At that time, the 68 year old veteran of the American and French revolutions was the last living Major General of the Continental Army.

An important ferry crossing during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, today there are 4 bridges across the broad Susquehanna River — 2 road (I-95 and US 40) and 2 rail (Amtrak and CSX).

03/03/2025

The Raid on Nassau, March 3, 1776. The first amphibious landing by the United States Marine Corps. Captain Samuel Nicholas, the Corps' first Commandant, leads 200 Marines in an attack on Nassau in the Bahamas.The Americans capture Fort Montagu and occupy the capital for 2-weeks, seizing military stores - including 38 casks of gunpowder.

Image: NH 79419-KN.

03/03/2025

The British raid on Havre de Grace at the head of the Chesapeake Bay on May 3, 1813, saw landing parties of the Royal Marines and Royal Navy burn the majority of the town’s buildings.

Two militia batteries protected the town’s bayside, the Concord Point battery and the Potato Battery.

The first position quickly fell to the British after a bombardment of Congreve rockets and an amphibious landing by the raiders.

The second - the so-called “Potato” Battery - commanded by Lieutenant John O’Neil of the 42nd Regiment of Maryland Militia, resisted longer. When his men fled, O’Neil loaded and fired the battery’s cannon by himself. Wounded in the hip, O’Neil continued to fight with a musket until captured.

O’Neil, born in Ireland in 1768, emigrated to America in 1786. Now a prisoner, the British considered him to still be a British subject, and sentenced him to death for treason. His teenage daughter Matilda was able to locate O’Neil’s commission in the Maryland milita that proved he was a US citizen. The plucky young girl rosed out to the Britis flagship and presented to document to Rear Admiral George Cockburn and, eventually, John O’Neil was released.

There is a memorial to the battle at the site of the Concord Point battery (also the location or the town’s 1827 lighthouse). The site of the Potato Battery, between Bourbon and Fountain streets, is unmarked.

03/02/2025

Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx draft card 1917.

What is your present trade, occupation, or office? “Actor.”

Born in New York in 1890, Groucho took to the vaudeville stage at age of 15 as a singer. Within a few years, Groucho and his brothers Milton (Gummo), Arthur (Harpo), Leonard (Chico), svd Herbert (Zeppo) had developed into a wisecracking comedy troupe.

The Selective Service Act 1917 authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. All males aged 21-30 (including Groucho Marx) were required to register for the draft. More than 24 million men registered (including Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, and Louis Armstrong). A staggering 4.8 million American men served in uniform as volunteers abd draftees between 1917 and 1919.

03/02/2025

James Bowie is parleying with Mexican officers on the bridge over the San Antonio River. The Alamo Chapel is seen in the background.

Illustration by Texas History Artist, Gary Zaboly

03/02/2025

Happy birthday Texas!

The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836.

“… that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations.”

03/02/2025

Monument to the War of 1812 in Chestertown, Maryland.

03/01/2025

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day!

The Regimental Goat of the Royal Welch Fusiliers is a longstanding British military tradition. The first Kashmir goat was presented to the regiment by Queen Victoria in 1844 from a herd started by some goats given to her by the Shah of Persia. The Regimental goat - a serving member of the regiment, not a mascot - wears a silver headplate and is in the care of a non-commissioned officer with the honorary title of Goat Major.

The RWF merged into the Royal Welsh in 2006, becoming the new regiment’s 1st Battalion.

The current Regimental Goat is Fusilier William Windsor (Army number 25142301), born in 2009. He is allocated a ration of 2 ci******es per day - which he eats - and Guinness “to keep the iron up.”

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The Royal Welsh