Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

LOL

I lie in AK, if the tank is down below 3/4, I start looking for a station.

It's a 'gasoline is hydroscopic' thing. Thawing out a frozen gas line in the dead of winter....

 

About noon on September 12, 1782, some 250 Indians and 40 British Rangers watched in amazement as the gates of the fort they were besieging swung open, allowing a teenage girl to slip out. Still watching intently, they saw the girl run quickly across the open field and disappear into an adjacent cabin about sixty yards from the southeastern corner of the fort. Only a few minutes passed before they saw this same girl emerge from the cabin, but she now carried a large bundle wrapped in her apron. Suddenly realizing that this girl carried several pounds of gunpowder, the Indians opened fire on her during the dozen or so seconds that their target was in view. Fortunately for the lives of those settlers in that western Virginia fort, the girl sped up the slight incline to the fort with such fleetness of foot that she was able to reach her destination unharmed, carrying her precious cargo of powder. With that powder, the fort continued to hold off the attackers until the following morning, when, losing heart, the enemy raised the siege and departed. One group moved off to attack the much smaller Rice's Fort, fifteen miles north, near present Bethany, Brooke County. Once again they were frustrated in their plans, as they were unable to capture the half-dozen defenders of that stockade.

Betty Zane, Lydia Boggs, and Molly Scott

History is evrywhere.

BTW - the Brit unit in this story went renegade early on.
The rest were, fromt he Brit POV, right on troops (Queen's Rangers - Wikipedia)

 

Bethany WV and Rice's Landing were my teenage stomping grounds...a lot of history in that area.