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Subject: [Q-R] Excerpt of History
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:48:07 EDT
George Washington
....... " I cannot tell a lie"
Maybe George couldn't, but Washington's biographer, Anglican
minister Parson Weems, certainly could.
Weems made up that story about chopping down the cherry tree,
including the punch line, George only debarked the cherry tree. Conveniently,
Weem's saintly bio of the first president appeared just after Washington's death
in 1799."
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Ethan Allen
........." In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress"
That's what patriot Ethan Allen supposedly said when a British
officer asked him by whose authority he was demanding the surrender of Fort
Ticonderoga. Ethan Allan's men remember it a bit differently. They recall that the
British commanding officer was sleeping and didn't exactly race outside. One man
heard Allen say "Come out here, you damned old Rat" another heard " Come out
here you sons of British whores, or I'll smoke you out". Ethan Allen's nobler
words were suddenly remembered four years after the deed by Allen and no one
else.
In fact, war stories seem to bring out the quote
machine.............. "
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