Kraven posted:OldSalt posted:
Kraven posted:Even his name sake ship is the death of sailors.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...nificant-damage.html
The USS John S. McCain is not named after the Senator, but the Senators father and Grandfather.
Good to know, I didn't realize that, but I should've........
The Antietam & Lake Champlain mentioned in OldSalts link within his post in his thread What the deuce? have interesting namesakes.
We all know Antietam was a inconclusive battle fought during the War of Northern Aggression which somehow emboldened Lincoln a few days later to write the Emancipation Proclamation which, for reasons only a Yankee would understand, freed the slaves in the South where Lincoln had no legal authority but did not free slaves in the north where he did. Nevertheless, revisionist historians have always given the EP credit for that even though it was the 13th Amendment which did 3 years later. But then revisionist historians are not mathematicians. Nor are they historians but liberals love living the lie.
What's at Lake Champlain? Fort Ticonderoga, a Revolutionary War British fort that was captured by, among others, Benedict Arnold.
https://www.tnvalleytalks.com/t...0#565106356511700030