[Grovenet] The true story of Spanish support for the American Revolution

[Katie Allnutt]

No fair for someone who knows some history to start a bad joke as a  
history lesson.
You had me all the way to the end.
Katie
(Thankfully the end was only a few sentences from the start.)

On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:29 PM, David Morelli wrote:

> It is a little known fact, that Marin County in the bay area of
> California was named for the same family that sent soldiers to assist
> in the American Revolution.
>
> Don Pablo Marin and his younger brother Jose Antonio Marin made their
> place in history came when they accompanied the American cannons sent
> to relieve Fort McHenry.  This is the same company that was commanded
> by Colonel Francis Scott Key.  At one point in the fighting their
> unit was firing from  behind a high wall and Francis asked the
> muscular Spaniard to lift his smaller brother high enough to identify
> British target over the wall.
>
> The rest is history.
>
> "Jose can you see, by Don's burly might?"
>
> David Morelli, UIS/Datatel Team
>
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