Boy, 15, is hailed a 'hero of Ukraine' for using his toy drone to help

[rayg]

Boy, 15, is hailed a 'hero of Ukraine' after using his toy drone to pinpoint an advancing Russian convoy? which was then wiped out by Kyiv's military

A territorial defence unit contacted drone pilot Andrii Pokrasa early in the war
They knew the teenager was a highly skilled drone operator living near Kyiv

He used his mini drone to locate a Russian convoy headed for the capital
The Ukrainian army destroyed the convoy near Berezivka, 23 miles from Kyiv

Pokrasa was hailed as a hero by the territorial defence unit's commander and given a high-end drone which he used to help destroy many more of Putin's tanks

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...struction.html

[bruce]

Throughout the War for Independence, very many of the soldiers who faced combat were hardly more than boys ... mostly young teenagers. History shows that they gave the British soldiers about as much as they could stand. At Yorktown they finished the British off. Later they taught the lesson again so that the British would have it down perfect. Sincerely. bruce.

[dogtag]

The Brits pursued the US Army to Yorktown where a French Army
was waiting for them with the harbor full of French Ships.
Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender especially as his Army was exhausted
and in no shape to engage a fresh french one.

[Vern Humphrey]

The Brits pursued the US Army to Yorktown where a French Army
was waiting for them with the harbor full of French Ships.
Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender especially as his Army was exhausted
and in no shape to engage a fresh french one.

Huh?

Cornwallis Was in the Carolinas and the Americans made it too hot for him. He crossed into Virginia (against orders) and sought a port where the British Navy could take him off. He fortified Yorktown and waited for the Navy. Admiral Graves came down from New York, but was defeated by a French fleet under the Compte De Grasse.

At that time, the main American Army was in New Jersey, keeping an eye on the main British Army in New York. A French force was in Newport, Rhode Island. Washington issued secret orders and negotiation with the Compte De Grasse to blockade the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.

One morning the British sentries saw a strange thing -- the American campfires on the other side of the Hudson were going out. The American Army was GONE! Washington had left a small detachment to keep up the fires and mimic an active camp. At that time the combined American and French were marching through the streets of Philadelphia, headed for Head of Elk, Maryland, where they boarded boats and floated down Chesapeake Bay to Yorktown.

[lyman]

there is a ceremony each year in South Boston VA to celebrate the Crossing of the Dan,

they do a nice reenactment every year

https://www.halifaxcountyhistoricalsociety.org/about-the-crossing

[Vern Humphrey]

there is a ceremony each year in South Boston VA to celebrate the Crossing of the Dan,

they do a nice reenactment every year

https://www.halifaxcountyhistoricals...t-the-crossing

The Yorktown campaign was a brilliant victory. And Alexander Hamilton's storming of Redoubt Number 10 with empty muskets sent the British a message -- about what would happen once the Americans got into their fortifications. Cornwallis surrendered before his defenses were breached -- and hence surrendered without honor.