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To: Tommaso who wrote (295608)	10/11/2004 12:38:06 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Washington claimed it was devine intervention. In one battle: seven hourses shot out from under him. Eleven bullet holes in his cloke. In the center of an ambush where the indians on either side had instructions to single out and fire upon officers on horseback. Years later Washington was traviling through the area and received a visit from a chief there. The chief wanted to meet the man that the "Great Spirit" was protecting in the battle. After firing at Washington many times he had determined that it was bad medicine to try to kill someone under such protection. He ordered his warriors to stop shooting at Washington. I think it's stupid to call that luck.

To: Tommaso who wrote (295608)	10/11/2004 12:42:30 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Hey GWB didn't have an easy time of it either. All that booze, the cocaine, the hookers ... very few men who go down that path live long enough to become president. At least not without doing serious jail time.

To: Tommaso who wrote (295608)	10/11/2004 3:32:24 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Napoleon rode in front of his troops just before Waterloo. A British sniper had an easy shot, but The Duke of Wellington wouldn't let him fire. Let's kill off 50,000 grunts, but save the generals. That battle might not have taken place at all if Napoleon had been killed. Before The Battle of Saratoga, one of Daniel Morgan's snipers shot a British Brigadier General. British General Gentleman Jim Burgoyne complained and American General Gates apologized. It was very bad form to shoot a general in those days. Supposedly, American second-in-command General Benedict Arnold sent the sniper a bottle of whisky as a reward, but that may have been a made-up story. Arnold was very popular with the American troops and Gates was considered a rear-echelon ninny.