Spain of course sided with the colonists during the American Revolution. France gets all the press, but Spanish aid to the fledgling United States was just as important in the winning of American independence.
First Thanksgiving
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
*1 At that first Eucharist before you died,
O Lord, you prayed that all be one in you;
At this our Eucharist again preside,
And in our hearts your law of love renew.
O may we all one bread, one body be,
Through this blest Sacrament of Unity.
Happy Thanksgiving TAC family.
I’m suppose to be on a beach? Eating oysters? Instead of pumpkin pie and turkey with a cold nip in the air and light snow in the forecast next week?
Give the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims their day, before things went south.
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And the Spanish did indeed help, but did not send 12K men to fight and a Navy to blockade.
Not sure if this original post on X was sent out of catholic triumphalism, leftist contagion of tradition destruction, or Florida man pride.
My Irish ancestors were in Spanish West Florida during the Revolution. I often wonder if some weren’t irregulars in the Spanish attacks on British forts down there.