God Almighty has played an integral part of the history of this great nation. It is literally in everything that has happened, and everything that is happening now. A fact which makes me shake my head in disbelief when athiests and leftists scorn the presence of the Lord in the early days of our country, and within the hearts of our founding fathers.
These stories are well known, and on the net. I took "Bulletproof" from UnderGodtheBook.com after hearing it on The Michael Medved Show.
From "The French and Indian War: Account of a British Officer, July 9, 1775
An American Indian chief looked scornfully at the soldiers on the field before him. How foolish it was to fight as they did, forming their perfect battle lines out in the open, standing shoulder to shoulder in their bright red uniforms. The British soldiers-trained for European war- did not break rank, even when braves fired at them from under the safe cover of the forest. The slaughter continued for two hours. By then, 1,000 of 1,459 British soldiers were killed or wounded, while only 30 of the French and Indian warriors firing at them were injured.
Not only were the soldiers foolish, but their officers were just as bad. Riding on horseback, fully exposed above the men on the ground, they made perfect targets. One by one, the chief's marksmen shot the mounted British officers.
"Quick, let your aim be certain and he dies," the chief commanded. The warriors leveled their rifles at the young Washington. Round after round was aimed at the one man. Twice his horse was shot out from under him. Twice he grabbed a horse left idle when a fellow officer had been shot down. Ten, twelve, thirteen rounds were fired by the sharpshooters. Still, he remainded unhurt.
The native warriors stared at him in disbelief. Their rifles seldom missed their mark. The chief suddenly realized that a mighty power must be shielding Washington.
"Stop firing!", he commanded. "This one is under the special protection of the Great Spirit." A brave standing nearby added, "I had seventeen clear shots at him...and after all could not bring him to the ground. This man was not born to be killed by a bullet"
As the firing slowed, the lieutenant colonel gathered the remaining troops and led the retreat to safety. That evening, as the last of the wounded were being cared for, Washington noticed an odd tear in his coat. It was a bullet hole! He rolled up his sleeve and looked at his arm directly under the hole. There was no mark on his skin. Amazed, he took off his coat and found three more holes where bullets had passed through his coat but stopped before they reached his body.
Nine days after the battle, having heard a rumor of his own death, the young lieutenant colonel wrote his mother to confirm that he was still very much alive.
"As I have heard since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first and of assuring you that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the all powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectiation, for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"
This battle, part of the French and Indian War, was fought near Fort Duquense. The twenty-three-year-old Washington went on to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army and the first president of
the United States. In all the years that followed in his long career, this man, George washington, was never once wounded in battle.
Fifteen years later, in 1770, George Washington returned to the same Pennsylvania woods. A respected Indian chief, having heard that Washington was in the area, traveled a long way to meet with him.
He sat down with Washington, and face-to-face over a council fire, the chief told Washington the following:
"I am a chief and ruler over my tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forests that I first beheld this chief[Washington].
I called to my young men and said, "Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe- he hath an Indian's wisdom and his warriors fight as we do-himself alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies."
Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss- 'twas all in vain, a power mightier far than we shielded you.
Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you. I am old and shall soon be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of the shades, but ere I go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy:
Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man [pointing at Washington], and guides his destinies- he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle."
"I took you...to be a ruler over my people...I have been with you wherever you have gone...Now I will make your name like the name of the greatest men of the earth."
Chronicles 17: 7-8
-Katykarter
These stories are well known, and on the net. I took "Bulletproof" from UnderGodtheBook.com after hearing it on The Michael Medved Show.
From "The French and Indian War: Account of a British Officer, July 9, 1775
An American Indian chief looked scornfully at the soldiers on the field before him. How foolish it was to fight as they did, forming their perfect battle lines out in the open, standing shoulder to shoulder in their bright red uniforms. The British soldiers-trained for European war- did not break rank, even when braves fired at them from under the safe cover of the forest. The slaughter continued for two hours. By then, 1,000 of 1,459 British soldiers were killed or wounded, while only 30 of the French and Indian warriors firing at them were injured.
Not only were the soldiers foolish, but their officers were just as bad. Riding on horseback, fully exposed above the men on the ground, they made perfect targets. One by one, the chief's marksmen shot the mounted British officers.
"Quick, let your aim be certain and he dies," the chief commanded. The warriors leveled their rifles at the young Washington. Round after round was aimed at the one man. Twice his horse was shot out from under him. Twice he grabbed a horse left idle when a fellow officer had been shot down. Ten, twelve, thirteen rounds were fired by the sharpshooters. Still, he remainded unhurt.
The native warriors stared at him in disbelief. Their rifles seldom missed their mark. The chief suddenly realized that a mighty power must be shielding Washington.
"Stop firing!", he commanded. "This one is under the special protection of the Great Spirit." A brave standing nearby added, "I had seventeen clear shots at him...and after all could not bring him to the ground. This man was not born to be killed by a bullet"
As the firing slowed, the lieutenant colonel gathered the remaining troops and led the retreat to safety. That evening, as the last of the wounded were being cared for, Washington noticed an odd tear in his coat. It was a bullet hole! He rolled up his sleeve and looked at his arm directly under the hole. There was no mark on his skin. Amazed, he took off his coat and found three more holes where bullets had passed through his coat but stopped before they reached his body.
Nine days after the battle, having heard a rumor of his own death, the young lieutenant colonel wrote his mother to confirm that he was still very much alive.
"As I have heard since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first and of assuring you that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the all powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectiation, for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"
This battle, part of the French and Indian War, was fought near Fort Duquense. The twenty-three-year-old Washington went on to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army and the first president of
the United States. In all the years that followed in his long career, this man, George washington, was never once wounded in battle.Fifteen years later, in 1770, George Washington returned to the same Pennsylvania woods. A respected Indian chief, having heard that Washington was in the area, traveled a long way to meet with him.
He sat down with Washington, and face-to-face over a council fire, the chief told Washington the following:
"I am a chief and ruler over my tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forests that I first beheld this chief[Washington].
I called to my young men and said, "Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe- he hath an Indian's wisdom and his warriors fight as we do-himself alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies."
Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss- 'twas all in vain, a power mightier far than we shielded you.
Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you. I am old and shall soon be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of the shades, but ere I go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy:
Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man [pointing at Washington], and guides his destinies- he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle."
"I took you...to be a ruler over my people...I have been with you wherever you have gone...Now I will make your name like the name of the greatest men of the earth."
Chronicles 17: 7-8
-Katykarter
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