2 Burst results for "James Decatur"
Liberty and Prosperity
"james decatur" Discussed on Liberty and Prosperity
"Number two, the rules of engagement. I can go into all the examples of how many American lives were lost because the American soldiers knew who was shooting at them. They knew how to find them and kill them and stop the attacks, but they were told no, no, no, you can't do that. They're in a monster. Here they're there. There's collateral damage. Needless to say, back in the barbary war, that was not a problem. With Richard summers came under cannon fire from cannon set up in a mosque. He just trained his guns on a mosque until the cannon fire stopped. When you had a barbary or a Tripoli, a gunboat pretended to surrender and the Americans came on board to accept the surrender, and then the crew of the boat killed the Americans who thought that they had come in peace. It turned out they killed the wrong person. They killed the James Decatur, the brother of Stephen Decatur, close friend of Richard summers, says Stephen the caterer got together in film gunboat, tracked down the gunboat that had violated their surrender agreement and he killed the captain and everybody on board except for one or two to give the message back that Americans are not to be messed with that way. That was another example of the rules.
Bay Curious
Why Theres A Cross on San Franciscos Highest Peak
"Mount davidson crossed. We sent bay curious producer susie rancho to find out just west of twin peaks above a quiet residential neighborhood is mount davidson park. It's not well known or well marked but once you start. Walking one of the parks trails. You're surrounded by eucalyptus trees and you start to forget that you're in the middle of a major city coming up trail breath mason amazing view when you get to the top. You see two things of you that stretches all the way to the east bay and one very big cross. The cross is an imposing sight. It stands at one hundred three feet tall and ten feet wide at the base made of concrete it stands in stark contrast to blue sky and the eucalyptus grove that surrounds it to learn more about how it got here. I went to mount davidson historian. I- jackie proctor. Jackie says the crosses origin story goes back almost a hundred years to nineteen twenty-three two time when the area was a forest a guy named james decatur who is a employee of the western union telegraph company and with the ymca hikes through that forest and comes to the top and he sees this incredible view of downtown and he is just overwhelmed. Inspire knee writes this long essay about the experience. Peace and quiet were so profound that it seemed almost unbelievable that the noise and roar of a great city was only a few minutes behind them the solitude of the forest conveyed a sense of fastness quite as real as one would experience among the age. Old monarchs of the high sierras