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Historical Tid-bit #1

5/31/2021

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Memorial Day - May 21st, 2021

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     I served aboard the USS Nathan Hale (SSBN 623), a Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine from 1985-86 as a MT (Missile Technician). During late January of 1986 we were off the coast of Florida participating in Training Exercises. Most of the exercise involved members of the various departments aboard the Submarine, along the lines of proficiency requirements. This included various training revolutions such as maneuvering, Torpedo launches, etc.

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The TRUITT Family & Their American Roots - 1: Introduction

5/18/2020

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The TRUITT Family

& Their American Roots

By Steven C. Gardner
NOTE:  This post includes only the "Introduction" at this time.  Additional posts to follow of each Chapter upon completion.  Table of Contents list below.  All sections are subject to re-editing as needed.
(Truitt, Trewhitt, Trewett, Trywhitt, Truitt, Trwhyt, Treuit...)

1 - Introduction

     The crisp Northumberland English landscape of the high moorlands, with its vast undeveloped landscapes, stretches along the eastern borders of the Anglo-Scottish line and is the ancestral land of the Truitt family.  With their persistent beginnings, this families fascinating adventures focus on a culture full of personal struggles, religious identity, and national pride.  From these Northern English roots grew a cultural line whose adventures would eventually cross the great Atlantic Ocean to participate in the founding of the Virginia colonial experience.  The consequences that follow stretch from the virgin tobacco fields of this new wilderness, through struggles of religious hardships, and culminates in a war for a new Nations identity.  The story that surrounds this family is entwined in the birth of the American Experience and the foundation of a Nation.

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Archibald MacGregor and the Battle of Culloden Moor

7/20/2018

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IN SEARCH OF SCOTTISH ROOTS - Article #1

Archibald MacGregor
and the Battle of Culloden Moor

by Steven C. Gardner

A wind that awoke on the moorland came sighing,
Like the voice of the heroes who perished in vain:
“Not for Tearlach alone the red claymore was plying,
But to win back the old world that comes not again.”
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

     The Battle of Culloden[i] was fought in the spring of 1746 between the forces of King George the II of England, led by his son Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, and the Scottish forces led by Charles Edward Stuart, commonly referred to as Bonnie Prince Charlie.  This was the last great engagement fought on either Scottish or British soil between these two contentious forces, and is known for its determined ferocity, vicious brutality, and rapid British victory.
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Figure 1: Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788)
     The conflict was spurred by an attempt of Scottish loyalists to restore “The House of Stuart” (or Stewart) to their hereditary and rightful place as rulers of the British Isles, which encompassed Scotland, England, and Ireland.  Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was an exiled Jacobite[ii] who persisted in his rights to the throne after his grandfather, King James II of England, was deposed in the Revolution of 1688, more commonly referred to as the ‘Glorious Revolution.’  As a result of this claim, Charles was labeled by those favoring British rule as “The Young Pretender.”

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6/30/2018

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