Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 25, 2013

“Whatcha say the words are Cleta”?

“In 1814 we took a little tripAlong with Colonel Jackson down the mighty MississipWe took a little bacon and we took a little beansAnd we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while agoWe fired once more and they begin to runnin’On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico(One-two-three, with a-one-two-three)"

by Jimmy Driftwood

Well, they ran through the briars and the ran through the brambles, they ran through bushes were a rabbit wouldn’t go, they ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ’em, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico…

“The last foreign enemy to set foot on American soil.”

Technically, KGB spies are foreign enemies. So… twenty-some years since an organized nation “enemy” set foot on our soil.If you count small faction lunatics, we probably have foreign enemies on American soil now.

And how about the 911 attacks? Weren’t they carried out by foreign enemies?

When I took the Oath I said “Enemys Foreign and Domestic”

Given what the Congresses have been doing, (or NOT, as the case may be) I think we’ve got plenty of BOTH to deal with!

“Those who surrended essential Liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty Nor Safety.” -B. Franklin

You don’t have to talk about foreign spies or the 9/11 attacks regarding foreign enemies on U.S. soil. In June 1942 the Japanese invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska. U.S. forces drove them out a year later.

Yep.

According to President Polk, Mexican troops attacked U. S. forces on American soil in 1846, although Congressman Abraham Lincoln continued to question the exact “spot” of that attack.

If you play war games in today’s schools, you get suspended for 3 days.

the last uniformed enemy to invade the US was the Japanese in the ww2 they took over some Alaskan islands.

I have some pre-WWII coins that say Filipinas on one side and United States of America on the other. They bear San Francisco and Denver mint marks. Coin collecting has taught me a lot of history.

After the Treaty of Ghent was signed, but before news of the treaty got to America.

I often wonder how Native Americans and Alaska Natives feel about that bumper sticker.

I hate to drag you all back to the point, but the battle which actually won (apologies to any Canadian readers) the War of 1812 was the Battle of Plattsburgh (1814), where we won on water (as usual) and lucked out when the British commander decided since he no longer had any naval backup he was going to withdraw the land troops. The Treaty of Ghent accepted our location at the end of the battle as our northern boundary, and the British stopped harassing our shipping and abducting American sailors, so from our point of view we won the war. The Canadians see it as a victory for them because opposing us united the English and French settlers into one country for the first time. I hope some of this rubs off on Frazz’s kids and their history teacher.

Sorry for the rant, I’m an 1812 reenactor in upstate NY, where much of the fighting occurred in 1813-14.

And the Japanese invading and occupying part of the Aleutians in Alaska during WWII? Doesn’t count because Alaska was still a territory at that point?

What about the Battle of Columbus?

As the Onion headline had it, “Dastardly Japs Attack Colonially Occupied U.S. Non-State”.

Kind of sad that everyone wants to talk history and/or historical accuracy, no-one compliments Burke for his perspective.

The Battle was NOT in New Orleans. It was in Chalmette LA where the Chalmette Battlefield is located.