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Post by C. Carlüs Xheraltescù on Apr 25, 2012 14:58:32 GMT -6
Who's your favourite revolutionary figure in history? Non-reunisionites are welcome to post theirs too!
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Post by Vitxalmour Conductour on Apr 25, 2012 15:11:10 GMT -6
Does Vercingetorix count?
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Sir Tamorán dal Navâ
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Post by Sir Tamorán dal Navâ on Apr 25, 2012 15:12:08 GMT -6
I have a couple, but John Adams is one that comes to mind first.
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Post by C. Carlüs Xheraltescù on Apr 25, 2012 15:14:45 GMT -6
Does Vercingetorix count? He can get an honourable mention in the revolutionary awards. Seriously, yes he does count. Who else have you got in mind? John Adams is a good choice.
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Doug Earnest
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Post by Doug Earnest on Apr 25, 2012 17:27:15 GMT -6
It's difficult to pick just one --
George Washington, for all the obvious reasons.
Captain John Parker (with whom I share a birthday) who stood up to the might of the British Empire at Lexington.
Daniel Morgan (because he was Daniel Morgan, and that's just awesome.)
The other famous Generals without whom victory may not have been attained: Knox, von Steuben, Greene, etc.
Joseph Plum Martin, who wrote "A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier" (Unfortunately renamed "Private Yankee Doodle" at some point by the publisher.)
And perhaps the most awesome was Samuel Whittemore, who was an 80 year old farmer and former soldier when the British marched on Lexington and Concord. Whittemore ambushed the relief column under Earl Percy from behind a stone wall. He killed three soldiers with his musket and dueling pistols, then attacked with a sword. He was shot in the face, bayoneted thirteen times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. Later, when his friends found him, he was trying to reload his musket to fight again. He was not expected to live beyond the next few hours. Whittemore died of natural causes at the age of 98. (I suspect he was sexually active up to the end, too.)
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Post by Iason Bitxichë Taiwos on Apr 25, 2012 18:00:22 GMT -6
Ahh, what they don't teach you in history class. Whittemore...talk about street-cred. And I was going to mention somebody pedestrian like Bakunin...!
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Apr 25, 2012 18:29:23 GMT -6
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
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Hooligan
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Post by Hooligan on Apr 25, 2012 19:59:20 GMT -6
George Washington. There is no one close to him. Here is something I wrote probably twenty years ago (yes, the Web is that old...barely): www.manushand.com/Presidents/faq/thoughts.html(on my "Frequently Asked Questions About Manus Hand [that's me, Baron Hooligan, for those who might not know] and the Dead Presidents" site) I get email from many people who come across this (and the other mini-essays on this page), every month. I will forever be glad I wrote them. Hool
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Apr 25, 2012 22:20:03 GMT -6
George Washington. There is no one close to him. Six-foot-twenty, hutschînd killin' for fun!
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Post by Béneditsch Ardpresteir, O.SPM. on Apr 26, 2012 5:23:02 GMT -6
I'd vote for the "an iron lady with a metallic heart"... mark my words, for those are indeed mine!
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Post by Ián B. Anglatzarâ on Apr 26, 2012 6:15:16 GMT -6
It's got to be Mick Collins for me, the Big Fellow.
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Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Apr 26, 2012 6:21:58 GMT -6
No favourite revolution figure here. But a favourite revolution: The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of '74.
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Post by C. Carlüs Xheraltescù on Apr 26, 2012 9:23:44 GMT -6
I'd vote for the "an iron lady with a metallic heart"... mark my words, for those are indeed mine! You hear that, Miestra, you're up there with all the big shots!
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Hooligan
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Post by Hooligan on Apr 26, 2012 10:39:19 GMT -6
It's got to be Mick Collins for me, the Big Fellow. He also makes some mighty fine whiskey these days, I must say. Hool
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Post by C. Carlüs Xheraltescù on Apr 26, 2012 11:02:25 GMT -6
Personally, I have a few revolutionaries in mind. My all time favourite would have to be Abbé Henri Grégoire, who stuck to his principles, kept loyalty and his faith when the French Revolution took an anti-clerical and bloody turn. (Not like that darn Talleyrand - Europe's biggest traitor...)
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