The plan was pretty simple. Attacking from the north and south at the same time, the British would be able to control a waterway and split those pesky New England radicals away from the rest of the colonies. Everything was working like clockwork, until the Brits forgot the most important thing…the hearts and minds of the colonists. Once they lost that, they had no hope of winning the war.
I remember when this famous statue used to stand in Karl Marx Stadt. But it no longer is there. Where is it now?
Hint: this was not on a battlefield, but on a College Campus. Not in Gettysburg, but in…
One night, at about the same time Andy Jackson was whipping red coats near New Orleans, a young woman and her half sister both eloped with a poet, meeting in the dark right here by this grave. One of the young women is buried here, along with her mother who is quite probably the greatest social philosophers ever born on English soil, the Grandmother of Frankenstein!
On this bridge, some “embattled farmers” looked up and saw that something in their hometown was on fire. In their rush to put out the flames, they ignited something that spun out of control and into what we now call “The United States of America.”
Hint: In the shadow of a monument to our country’s greatest philosopher, here is the writing on the wall of human history.
Here, Joe is at the site of a cataclysmic historical event. But this event was really the moment when the word “American” changed into something bigger and much better than it had ever been before. Let’s call this a “Linguistic Expansionary Event,” just to make it sound official and sophisticated.
Read more here: http://www.petrulionis.net/2013/05/the-place-where-us-became-american.html
Sitting in the lap of a giant.
Here we find Joe at the “end of history!” Really! On the hill behind him, the French Emperor was digging in for the big battle. The romantics were a part of the opposition, planning their moves at a small tavern a few meters to Joe’s left. (The tavern is still there and the food and drink are still wunderbar!) The bridge crosses the Saale River and the road carries a footsore academic into the town where Professor Hegel is teaching, declaring tomorrow’s battle to be the “End of History!”
A very important leader lived here, raised some children, organized a revolution, re-wrote the bible, and helped to found a movement that would give more people their political rights than any other mass struggle on American soil.
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