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03/15/2019

NOT TODAY SWEETHEART!

When Army Air Forces bomber pilot Owen Baggett was trying to take out a bridge in WWII at Burma, he ended up having to bail out in the skies over the bridge. He landed in the history books. In March 1943, Baggett and other airmen in his B-24 Liberator squadron were met by a baker's dozen of Japanese...

03/15/2019

Here at he Tin General we love Teddy Roosevelt. So here is a little history on his assassination attempt.

On October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to enter the Gilpatrick Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to give a speech. As he stood up in his open-top car, a man named John Schrank stepped forward with a revolver and fired a .38-caliber bullet into Roosevelt's chest.

The bullet hit him on the right side, traveling at an upward and slightly inward angle, but was slowed after it hit his speech manuscript and eyeglass case in his coat pocket, then stopped against his tenth rib.

Roosevelt demanded to know why Schrank shot him, but the would-be assassin wouldn't answer (he later claimed the ghost of President McKinley told him to do it).

Roosevelt went inside and, after announcing to the audience what had happened, gave the speech (around 90 minutes) anyway before going to the hospital.

An x-ray showed the path the bullet had taken before striking his rib, and that it probably would have hit his heart were it not for his speech and eyeglass case slowing it down and altering its path slightly.

The Bull Moose recovered, and Schrank was institutionalized. The bullet remain inside TR.

03/03/2019

03/02/2019

I have always held the true Claymore was the basket hilted broadsword...

There's been some debate over the proper application of the Scottish term "claymore" as far as to which type of sword it refers - the basket-hilted broadsword or the long, two-handed sword.

Being a dork, I've spent quite a bit of time researching this very question and present to you all what I've found:

The term "claymore" is best applied to the basket-hilted broadsword used by the Scots from ca. 1700 onward, rather than to the large, two-handed sword of the late-Medieval period to which it often is applied.

This is shown by contemporary literature referring to the basket-hilted broadsword as a "claymore" while contemporary references to the two-handed sword as a "claymore" are absent.

For example, as early as 1715, a description of the Highlanders sent after the outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor referred to them as carrying "claymores", and the Highland soldiers present at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 were described as carrying "claymores" - in both cases the Highlanders were carrying basket-hilted broadswords.

But the meaning of the word, itself, also provides further evidence.

According to Armstrong's Gaelic dictionary from 1825, the word "claidheamh-mòr" from which we get "claymore" means "broadsword", while the separate term for the two-handed sword is actually "claidheamh dà làimh".

The use of the term "claymore" to describe the two-handed sword began in the late-1700s and into the 1800s as non-Gaelic writers began to describe ALL Scottish swords as claymores, partly from a newfound sense of romanticism surrounding the Highlanders in British society, now that they were no longer just a hairy, beplaided, psychopathic terror looming just over the border (go, us!).

However, the Scots, themselves, never referred to the "twa-handit" sword as a claymore.
....for those of you who were wondering....

01/01/2019

here is the new official logo of the Tin General. We will be rolling out some exciting things this year including a couple of Kickstarters, a video series and some other special projects. lets Start 2019 with a bang

12/05/2018

Here are some unit cards created from the mtgcardsmith.com website. these are for the Spanish American War using The men who would be kings rule set.

12/05/2018

Man it s been a long time getting back to this..... but here we are.