Beware the Ides of March.

I'm looking at you, Cornwallis.

From Luna's favorite plaque:

MARCH XV MDCCLXXXI

In the manoeuvering that preceded it, in the strategy that compelled it, in the heroism that signalized it, and in the results that flowed from it, the battle of Guilford Court House is second to no battle fought on American soil.

Over the brave men who fell here their comrades marched to ultimate victory at Yorktown, and the cause of constitutional self-government to assured triumph at Philadelphia.

To officer and private, to Continental soldier and volunteer militiaman, honor and award are alike due. They need neither defense nor eulogy but only just recognition.

A grateful nation erects this monument, therefore, as an expression of its solemn pride in the men who fought here, of its imperishable devotion to their memory, and of its unalterable confidence in the permanence of the principles which their example vindicated and their blood consecrated.

Comments

[John Burns]

Imagine 1400 of those suckers going off at once. That's what the first line poured into the Scottish Highlanders during that battle.

One volley, half the casualties of the entire battle. I read somewhere that it was "the most effective volley of the entire war" And it was just a bunch of farm boys.