Puritanhead
Puritan Board Professor
I e-mailed this to a few people... I might as well post it for the general public.
Notable Events on February 17th
1370 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania, as the Lithuanians were driven back, and they were converted only some years later, with their grand duke, Jagellon, who embraced Christianity when he married the heiress of the Kingdom of Poland (1386).
1500 - The Battle of Hemmingstedt took place on February 17, 1500 near the village of Hemmingstedt in present-day Schleswig-Holstein, which was an attempt of the Dukes to
1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
1800 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President. President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1864 - The CSS H. L. Hunley is the first submarine to engage and sink a warship.
1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States! Yee-Haw! Bring on the alcohol!
1979 - The forgotten month-long Sino-Vietnamnese War Begins, as the PRC makes an incursion into northern Vietnam, against what they perceived as ungrateful satellite state unappreciative of Chinese aid to their cause against America.
The Battle of Hemmingstedt
The Battle of Hemmingstedt took place on February 17, 1500 near the village of Hemmingstedt in present-day Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It was an attempt of the dukes of Holstein and Schleswig, Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen who had established a peasants' republic at the coast of the North Sea. (Duke Johann was at the time also king of the Kalmar Union.)
The Election of 1800
The U.S. presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", occurs, and the stalemate lead to the reform of the electoral college, and the passage of the 12th Amendment.
http://www.answers.com/topic/u-s-presidential-election-1800
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment12/
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/amendXII.html
The C.S.S. Hunley
CSS H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States Navy that demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship, though the sub was also sunk in the engagement. The first crew died tragically as the submarine ballast was not out of whacked, and they suffocated to death at the bottom of Charleston harbor unable to move. The work on the Hunley, and the Pioneer in New Orleans, demonstrated that the Confederates were indeed possessed of a sense of ingenuity and technological innovation despite their lack of resources.
http://www.hunley.org/
http://www.thehunley.com/
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-3.htm
http://www.charlestonillustrated.com/hunley/
http://www.answers.com/topic/css-hunley
The Sack of Columbia, SC
Sherman, the liquor-drinking drunkard Union General and castigator of inquity sets blaze to Columbia, SC commensurate with his longstanding commitment to display the pyrotechnic might of the Union Army, as well as rape and plunder. In John F. Rhodes's The Burning of Columbia, the historian retells the punitive burning of South Carolina: "Sherman, with his army of 60,000 left Savannah on February 1, 1865, and reached the neighborhood of Columbia on February 16. The next day Columbia was evacuated by the Confederates, occupied by troops of the 15th Corps of the Federal Army, and by the morning of the 18th, three-fifths of the town lay in ashes." Rape of South Carolina's daughters, wanton violence against citizen and wholesale plunder were the end result. While marching in Georgia, Sherman wrote, "I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple of thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash." As Sherman liked to say, "There is a class of people [in the South], men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order."
http://www.us-civilwar.com/columbia.htm
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/Sp00/3358.html
http://www.civilwar-va.com/southcarolina/sc-central.html
More of Sherman's war crimes are documented here, such as the kidnapping and rape of Georgia's women:
http://www.scv674.org/SH-13.htm
Of course, they don't exactly teach the truth of Union war atrocities in Yankee publik schools. But as C.S. General Pat Cleuburne says, "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision."
Today in History
More interesting events on Feb 17, by a web site that surprisingly doesn't recollect all of the cool stuff I did can be found at...
http://www.todayinhistory.com/
BTW February 18th is the day the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther died. As I get older, it's cool how my mind won't lose its passion for historical facts. I might start a this day in history section on my blogspot.
Notable Events on February 17th
1370 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania, as the Lithuanians were driven back, and they were converted only some years later, with their grand duke, Jagellon, who embraced Christianity when he married the heiress of the Kingdom of Poland (1386).
1500 - The Battle of Hemmingstedt took place on February 17, 1500 near the village of Hemmingstedt in present-day Schleswig-Holstein, which was an attempt of the Dukes to
1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
1800 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President. President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1864 - The CSS H. L. Hunley is the first submarine to engage and sink a warship.
1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States! Yee-Haw! Bring on the alcohol!
1979 - The forgotten month-long Sino-Vietnamnese War Begins, as the PRC makes an incursion into northern Vietnam, against what they perceived as ungrateful satellite state unappreciative of Chinese aid to their cause against America.
The Battle of Hemmingstedt
The Battle of Hemmingstedt took place on February 17, 1500 near the village of Hemmingstedt in present-day Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It was an attempt of the dukes of Holstein and Schleswig, Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen who had established a peasants' republic at the coast of the North Sea. (Duke Johann was at the time also king of the Kalmar Union.)
The Election of 1800
The U.S. presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", occurs, and the stalemate lead to the reform of the electoral college, and the passage of the 12th Amendment.
http://www.answers.com/topic/u-s-presidential-election-1800
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment12/
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/amendXII.html
The C.S.S. Hunley
CSS H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States Navy that demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship, though the sub was also sunk in the engagement. The first crew died tragically as the submarine ballast was not out of whacked, and they suffocated to death at the bottom of Charleston harbor unable to move. The work on the Hunley, and the Pioneer in New Orleans, demonstrated that the Confederates were indeed possessed of a sense of ingenuity and technological innovation despite their lack of resources.
http://www.hunley.org/
http://www.thehunley.com/
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-3.htm
http://www.charlestonillustrated.com/hunley/
http://www.answers.com/topic/css-hunley
The Sack of Columbia, SC
Sherman, the liquor-drinking drunkard Union General and castigator of inquity sets blaze to Columbia, SC commensurate with his longstanding commitment to display the pyrotechnic might of the Union Army, as well as rape and plunder. In John F. Rhodes's The Burning of Columbia, the historian retells the punitive burning of South Carolina: "Sherman, with his army of 60,000 left Savannah on February 1, 1865, and reached the neighborhood of Columbia on February 16. The next day Columbia was evacuated by the Confederates, occupied by troops of the 15th Corps of the Federal Army, and by the morning of the 18th, three-fifths of the town lay in ashes." Rape of South Carolina's daughters, wanton violence against citizen and wholesale plunder were the end result. While marching in Georgia, Sherman wrote, "I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple of thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash." As Sherman liked to say, "There is a class of people [in the South], men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order."
http://www.us-civilwar.com/columbia.htm
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/Sp00/3358.html
http://www.civilwar-va.com/southcarolina/sc-central.html
More of Sherman's war crimes are documented here, such as the kidnapping and rape of Georgia's women:
http://www.scv674.org/SH-13.htm
Of course, they don't exactly teach the truth of Union war atrocities in Yankee publik schools. But as C.S. General Pat Cleuburne says, "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision."
Today in History
More interesting events on Feb 17, by a web site that surprisingly doesn't recollect all of the cool stuff I did can be found at...
http://www.todayinhistory.com/
BTW February 18th is the day the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther died. As I get older, it's cool how my mind won't lose its passion for historical facts. I might start a this day in history section on my blogspot.
