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Post by daveycricket on Feb 16, 2008 16:36:19 GMT -5
Hi, Folks! I'm new here, so thanks for welcoming me aboard. I have an interesting couple of images that I thought you'd like to tear apart.  |
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Post by daveycricket on Feb 16, 2008 16:37:54 GMT -5
 Your comments are invited. Thanks Davey Cricket, King of the Wild Frontier |
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Post by neferetus on Feb 16, 2008 21:47:34 GMT -5
Nice. May I venture to ask if you are in the photos and, if so, where, exactly?
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Post by Rick on Feb 16, 2008 23:49:26 GMT -5
Now those are cool-looking outfits.
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Post by Greg C. on Feb 22, 2008 8:44:01 GMT -5
First off, welcome aboard!
Secondly, those can't be real pictures from the Mexican war, can they? They seem too clear.
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Post by neferetus on Feb 22, 2008 10:20:44 GMT -5
 How's this?  |
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Post by Greg C. on Feb 22, 2008 11:22:39 GMT -5
Looks more authentic Ned. But whats the story behind all of them?
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 29, 2008 16:35:49 GMT -5
Greg those are not "authentic" Mexican American war pics, I think there is an attempt at humor here!  ;D TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded  |
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Post by neferetus on Feb 29, 2008 20:46:29 GMT -5
Greg those are not "authentic" Mexican American war pics, I think there is an attempt at humor here! ;D TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded Or, an attempt to show off the reenactor unit the poster belongs to. |
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Post by seguin on Feb 29, 2008 22:03:05 GMT -5
Maybe Mr. Cricket will enlighten us?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 1, 2008 15:38:55 GMT -5
Nice. May I venture to ask if you are in the photos and, if so, where, exactly? He's in the middle |
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Post by daveycricket on Mar 1, 2008 18:00:25 GMT -5
Maybe Mr. Cricket will enlighten us? Didn't mean to be rude by waiting this long to reply, but I've been busy working on Top Secret Gov't. projects. I'll use Hans' quote to reply to everyone. Those were taken in '96. My Dragoon unit, C Company, 2nd Dragoons, was retracing the route of Col. Stephen Watts Kearney an his 1st (yuck) Dragoons along the Dragoon Trail in Iowa, as part of the Iowa sesquicentennial. It was a lot of fun, it was wet, we and the horses were saddlesore, and we ALL looked back on it afterwards and laughed, except our Colonel, who we fragged. I made all the M1839 Dragoon uniforms, and an apology to you purists, but we were riding MacLellan saddles. Thanks for your response, folks, and the further aging that was done was very good. |
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Post by seguin on Mar 3, 2008 20:31:20 GMT -5
Nice pics and nice uniforms! Is it you with the moustace and the black cap?
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Post by daveycricket on Mar 4, 2008 15:04:02 GMT -5
I'm wearing the the sky-blue greatcoat with the blue cap, and yes, I'm the one with the mustache. The chap in front with the straw hat was our Colonel, a native Texan. I had to keep the troops from killing him for a hudred and twenty miles. Burt, as I stated earlier, afterwards we all looked back on the ride and had several good laughs recounting somewhat embellished stories.
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Post by seguin on Mar 4, 2008 21:47:31 GMT -5
Funny how past troubles becomes great memoires... ;D
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Post by daveycricket on Mar 6, 2008 15:34:29 GMT -5
Yeah, it is. And the funny thing was that histrory was creating itself while the evnt was still in progress, with the days stories being told and being embellished, as I recall. And I played my role in that as well. But, as John Ford has the newspapeman say in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "When Legend become Fact, Print the Legend".
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Post by neferetus on Mar 26, 2008 10:23:58 GMT -5
Davycricket and all: So, what's your take on the War with Mexico? In Mexico itself, it is considered an invasion of sovreign Mexican territory by U.S. forces.
Firstoff, I think it's important that we separate the 1836 Texian war of independence from the 1846 U.S. war with Mexico. While the annexation of Texas played a role in that war, the reasons for fighting are not so readily attached. The Texian revolution, it may be argued, was a just war against a dictator who'd abolished the rightful Mexican Constitution of 1824.
But what of the Mexican War? Was it a justifiable conflict, or merely a land-grab by the United States? "Manifest Destiny" rearing her ugly head, so to speak.
Let's talk.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 26, 2008 11:01:47 GMT -5
Three words:
Polk's Manifest Destiny
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Post by Salvager on Apr 8, 2008 21:06:20 GMT -5
awesome pics and uniforms.
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Post by seguin on Apr 8, 2008 21:20:12 GMT -5
"Manifest destiny" sounds like a sorry excuse for expansion. I don´t know much about the Mexican war. I´ll have to find something about it on the net...
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