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 October 21st, 2007

Dear Patriots,

 

    Randy  from Evansville, IN is this week's history challenge winner!  We will ship Randy a  "Land of the Free / Because of the Brave - Crew Neck Sweatshirt" as this week's prize.   Yorktown, VA was correct answer.   Click here for the resource information!

 

"The commander-in-chief earnestly recommends that the troops not on duty should universally attend with that seriousness of deportment and gratitude of heart which the recognition of such reiterated and astonishing interposition of Providence demands of us." - The day after lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, General George Washington called for a service to render thanksgiving to God.

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Sincerely,

Chris Peterson

 

 
 
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Weekly History Challenge

 This week's prize is the DVD documentary "Islam: What the West Needs to Know"

 

During the 1790's American Mediterranean Shipping was regularly plundered by Barbary pirates (Muslim outlaws from Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli). Washington and Adams had paid some small bribes at first - the trade was not sufficient to warrant a military expedition. But when the pasha of Tripoli chopped down the flagpole at the U.S. consulate there and held the ambassador and his staff hostage, it was a direct affront and an act of war. President Thomas Jefferson sent a small fleet (including the USS Constitution) and set up an naval blockade.  In October of 1803, responding to a Tripolitan vessel making a run to break the blockade, the frigate USS Philadelphia struck an uncharted reef and heeled over - the ship and crew was captured.  In a daring plan to recapture and destroy the Philadelphia (so it could not be used by the enemy); this man led a small group of eight Marines and successfully completed the operation without the loss of a single man. Name the man who led this successful mission.

 

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