Hessian Jager Corps Captain Johann Heinrichs wrote to the Counsellor of the Court, January 18, 1778: "Call this war, dearest friend, by whatsoever name you may, only call it not an American Revolution, it is nothing more nor less than an Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion.”
On January 1, 1802, Jefferson wrote back, agreeing with the Baptists: "Gentlemen ... Believing WITH you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions..."
Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th, which in Eastern Europe is considered the holiest day of the season. Western Europe, though, celebrates December 25th, the birth of Christ, as the holiest day of the season. At the Council of Tours in 567 A.D., the decision was made to make all 12 days from DECEMBER 25 to JANUARY 6 "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
John F. Kennedy continued: "But in the two years since that revolution swept Fidel Castro into power, those promises have all been broken ... All political dissenters have been executed, imprisoned, or exiled. All academic freedom has been eliminated ... All major newspapers and radio stations have been seized ... And all of Cuba is in the iron grip of a communist-oriented police state. Castro and his gang have betrayed ... the Cuban people."
Galvez not only kept the British from attacking Washington's army from the west, but allowed army supplies, weapons, uniforms, and medicine to flow up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then across Pennsylvania to the American troops.
