Elena✨

Building my future and protecting my peace. If your intentions are sexual or unserious, please don’t DM me.

[Elena✨ @Elenaer3nv]

@CEOinfopro @warDaniel47 Violent criminals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of their immigration status. Public safety should always come first, and immigration laws should be enforced fairly and consistently

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

America 250. 🇺🇸🕊️

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

One of the all-time great lines by RWR.

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

It's Freedom Friday! Remember everyone deployed and say a little prayer for their safety. 🇺🇸

[SK 🇺🇸 @eastonaxe]

It's Freedom Friday! Remember everyone deployed and say a little prayer for their safety. 🇺🇸

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

The Old Continentals. In ragged regimentals. Faltered Not. 🇺🇸

[Bob Hyneman @BobhynemanUSA]

1/2🧵
🇺🇸TODAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY🇺🇸

June 10, 1718, Blackbeard deliberately stranded his flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge off the North Carolina coast. (It was the beginning of a surrender process.)

The Golden Age of Piracy stretched far beyond the Caribbean. Pirates raided from New York and Charleston all the way to Madagascar and India. Frustrated with the growing epidemic, King George I issued the Act of Grace on September 5, 1717, offering a full pardon to any pirate who surrendered by the deadline.

Blackbeard, commanding two ships at the time, knew exactly which of his men would accept the pardon with him. He transferred the bulk of the captured loot and his most loyal crew onto the smaller, faster sloop Adventure. Then he intentionally ran the big 300-ton flagship hard onto a sandbar at Topsail Inlet and abandoned roughly half his crew (over 100 men) to fend for themselves.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 10, 1864, Nathan Bedford Forrest took 3,500 Confederate cavalry and destroyed a Union force of 8,000 men.

Not surprised them. Not inconvenienced them.

Destroyed them.

Here's the part that makes military historians still talk about this battle 160 years later:

Forrest planned the whole thing around Mississippi mud and summer heat.

He knew the Union cavalry would arrive first. He knew their infantry was miles behind, marching through sweltering heat on terrible roads.

So his entire strategy was: hit the cavalry hard, make them fight for hours, wear them down completely.

Then wait.

When the Union infantry finally arrived, exhausted, soaked in sweat, legs giving out after miles of brutal marching, they were immediately thrown into a battle that had already been raging.

Forrest hit them the moment they got there.

The Union line collapsed.

The retreat became a rout. The rout became a disaster.

Forrest captured 18 artillery pieces, 176 supply wagons, and over 1,500 prisoners.

Grant was so embarrassed he ordered another expedition against Forrest almost immediately.

That one failed too.

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

250 more years. 🇺🇸

[SK 🇺🇸 @eastonaxe]

To our unknowns. 🇺🇲

HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY

A COMRADE IN ARMS

KNOWN BUT TO GOD

16,859 of our military dead are buried at the Manila American Cemetery.

3,600 of those are unknown US Service members

The Walls of the Missing are inscribed with 36,286 names of those Missing in Action

21 brothers are buried here resting side by side, as are 2 fathers and sons.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

It’s inconceivable that two future Hall of Famers would be combat vets in today’s day and age.

Great ballplayers and great Americans!

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

They gave us liberty, we must keep it. 🇺🇸

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

This Bunker Hill battle map experiment with Grok not going so well... 😂
@AHC1776

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to the Washington Post’s @DanLamothe, the U.S. Navy drone that aided in the rescue of two U.S. Apache helicopter crew members was a Saronic Technologies Corsair unmanned surface vessel (USV). First deployed in the U.S. Central Command AOR in March of this year, the USV reportedly picked up the two soldiers and then took them to a secondary location where a waiting helicopter hoisted them up. Such a rescue would be the first time that such a system was used in this role.

[CultivatedSoul @SoulCultivated]

"Real life is found only in the present.

Life is neither suffering nor pleasure,
but the business which we have to do,
and which we have to finish honestly,
up to our life's end."

– Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in Tolstoy's
A Calendar of Wisdom

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

The Old Continentals. In ragged regimentals. Faltered Not. 🇺🇸

[American History & Studies 🇺🇸 @History_Globs]

🧵(8/10)
For three weeks, the battle devolved into relentless, hand-to-hand combat. Marines used trench knives, bayonets, clubs, and their mitts to clear the nests.

The ferociousness of the Americans shocked the battle-hardened German defenders, who wrote home about their brave new enemy. “The Americans are saved by their stupidity... They do not know how to fear, and they do not know how to surrender.”

For three weeks, the battle degenerated further into a claustrophobic war of attrition fought with bayonets, grenades, gas, bludgeons and fists.

The incoming artillery barrages had shattered the trees into a labyrinth of smoke and mustard gas, littered with fallen logs, giant boulders and bodies. Visibility was so poor that the fighting was done in isolated, small-unit actions to clear fortified German machine gun nests.

The Wood was well suited for snipers, a skill common to many Americans. The Marines' had remarkable long-range marksmanship using the legendary Springfield M1903 bolt-action rifle and their raw aggression stunned their opponents.

A captured German officer's diary revealed the psychological toll the 4th Brigade inflicted, “The Americans are splendid. Their riflemen are superb... We have a most difficult task before us.”

The Germans grudgingly nicknamed them in admiration, Teufelhunden, meaning “Devil Dogs.”

[SK 🇺🇸 @eastonaxe]

It’s time for the Trump administration to make our MIA's and the @dodpaa a top priority-our Heroes deserve to come home. Captain Schmidt is still listed as “active pursuit” by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. @SecWar @USWPColby @SECNAV @HungCao_VA

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

The Man in the Arena
President Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”