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  1. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing England: The Brutal

    The face of Capt. Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu is striped in war paint. Primeval forest conceals his French Marines, Canadian militia, and Indian allies as they maneuver into position. Hidden behind boulders and ancient oak trees, they await the massive combined force of the British and colonial armies now marching toward them. Beaujeu's French and Indians are heavily outnumbered. Unlike the British, they don't have cannon that can kill and maim dozens with a single blast of canister shot. Instead, their weapons are those of a nimble guerrilla fighting force: muskets, tomahawks, war clubs to bash skulls, and sharp knives for slicing the flesh and hair from a dying man's head
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  2. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing England: The Brutal

    The term head, in reference to a toilet, comes from the special board extending from the "beak head" of the ship {the pointed bow} out over the ocean for passengers to use as a communal toilet. The wind and waves dispatch any odor or mess.
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  3. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing England: The Brutal

    From their lofty summits overlooking Boston Harbor and the city itself, the colonists can fire cannonballs-which is why the British have spent the last three weeks secretly plotting an invasion of the Charlestown Peninsula, to capture those heights. But just two days ago, on June 13, the rebels got word of the British plans. Working day and night, they have been preparing redoubts from which to fend off the redcoats. Six feet high, made of earth, with wooden platforms on the interior from which men can stand to fire their muskets, the square-shaped
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  4. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing England: The Brutal

    In fact, the parade scene in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off memorably honors Von Steuben Day and the Baron's German heritage.
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  5. Bill O'Reilly _ Killing England: The Brutal

    the aging diplomat sits down at the desk of French foreign minister Charles Gravier, the
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