History With Jacob ✓

[image] Regardless of how loose moral standards become I will not lower mine Regardless of how much the culture around me degenerates and crumbles I will hold firm Regardless of how vile and sloppy my generation behaves I will be a gentleman

[image] If you could travel back in time to witness one historical moment, what would it be?

[image] To the oceans white with foam

[image] To the prairies

[image] I finally finished reading Don Quixote I used to think that the Three Musketeers was the funniest book in classic literature, but I was wrong. Don Quixote had me laughing so hard, my wife kept asking what was going on. There is a reason that this is the best selling book of

[image] God Bless America

[image] Land that I love 🇺🇸

[image] Stand beside her And guide her

[image] Through the night With the light From above

[image] The New World Rich with opportunity and possibility And it still is today

[image] Henry Knox hauling 60 tons of captured cannons over 300 miles in the winter to expel the British from Boston is not talked about enough. American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸

[image] The New World

[image] For purple mountain majesty

[image] God shed His grace on thee

[image] In the 1870s, kids in D.C. roller hard-boiled eggs down the Capitol Hill slopes on Easter Monday. It got so chaotic and destructive to the grass that in 1876, Congress passed the Turf Protection Law to ban it. The disappointed children swarmed the White House, leading

[image] Long live the American Cowboy

[image] Hamilton taking control of Redoubt 10 at Yorktown. He operated with his characteristic efficiency, taking it in under 10 minutes. American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸

[image] “In preparing for battle I have found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

[image] “Map of America” shown to King Henry VII in the 1500’s

[image] The American War that most forget about: The 1st Barbary War After years of paying tribute to stop Barbary pirate attacks on US shipping, President Jefferson sent the Navy in 1801 to fight them. The victory ended the bribery and established American naval credibility abroad.

[image] American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸 The first nation explicitly founded on the universal principles that all men are created equal with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Boldly breaking from the world of privilege and establishing a merit-based one.

[image] God bless America 🇺🇸 My home sweet home

[image] During the First Barbary War, young Lt. Decatur led a daring nighttime raid into heavily defended Tripoli Harbor The Barbary pirates had captured an American frigate, so Decatur snuck in and set it ablaze Under heavy firing of enemy batteries, but he didn’t lose a single

[image] Independence Hall 🇺🇸 By Robert Finale