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To: Neeka who wrote (494169)	7/4/2012 1:48:21 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

This may or may not be true but it's a great 4th of July story: The American Indian chief looked scornfully at the soldiers on the field before him. How foolish to fight as they did, forming battle lines out in the open, standing shoulder to shoulder in their bright red uniforms. The Indian braves fired from under the safe cover of the forest, yet the British soldiers never broke rank. The slaughter at the Monongahela River continued for 2 hours. By then, 1000 British soldiers were killed or wounded, while only 30 French and Indian warriors were injured. Not only were the soldiers foolish, but their officers were just as bad. Riding on horseback, fully exposed above the men on the ground, they made perfect targets. One by one the chief's marksmen shot the mounted British officers until only one remained. Twice this officer's horse was shot out from under him; he just grabbed another horse left idle when a fellow officer had been shot off it and kept going. Ten, twelve, thirteen rounds were fired by the sharpshooters, yet he still remained unharmed. The native officers couldn't believe it. Their rifles seldom missed their mark. The chief came to a realization that a might power was shielding this man. He commanded his men to stop firing at him and said: "This man is under the protection of the Great Spirit...this man was not born to be killed by a bullet." Later that evening, this British officer noticed several bullet holes in his uniform, yet he was unharmed. A few days later he wrote in a letter to his brother: "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me." Years later, that same British Officer went back to those same Pennsylvania woods. That same Chief who had fought against this man heard he was in the region and came a long way to see him. In a face to face council, the Chief said: "Listen! [You] will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail [you] as the founder of a mighty empire. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle." The battle on the Monongahela, part of the French and Indian war, was fought on July 9, 1755 near Fort Duquesne, now the city of Pittsburgh. The twenty-three year old officer went on to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. In all the years that followed in his long career, this man, George Washington was never once wounded in Battle.