Nah: if he were a sovereign citizen he clearly would have travelled off.
Not even close to a nitpick. At best he helped those units in the rear echelon not as an operator. Read the entire article. It goes on to say that none of the troops involved were kept from discussing their roles. It’s a lot like fake Navy SEALs always say what they did was classified to avoid too many questions. Lee’s name is not on any official paperwork where it would be found if he was involved in what he claimed. It’s not really disputed anymore that he embellished. His stories just don’t add up. Some fans refuse to believe it because the lie is more interesting than the truth.
Actually, given the Dred Scott decision was still in effect at the time, Grant could have been a state citizen without being a United States citizen.
I am reading A Bridge too Far and several members of the British army “attached” were fighting with those units, even on the front line. Things got pretty fluid in war.
The Rosenbergs were in fact Soviet Agents and committed nuclear espionage.
Yes, we now have confirmation, I believe.
There is absolutely no evidence of that. He did have some close calls in the rear area during air raids but there is absolutely no evidence he was involved in close combat.
I see what you did there. I’d laugh, but I’m a little hoarse.
Maybe not a full-blown historical myth, but a misconception I often hear, is that since the average life span in the past was so much lower (40 yo globally in the year 1800), many assume that people actually aged more quickly and all dropped dead by 40 or so.
But it’s an average life span, skewed down by the high amount of infant mortality-- before vaccination, modern antibiotics and sanitation techniques had been developed. If you lived past childhood and didn’t get yourself killed in a war, you had a good chance of living into your 70s or even 80s.
I don’t know that it’s that extreme. I think in the late 1800s the life expectancy for a 50-year-old was about 8 or so years less than it is today. I think the 80s is a little past ‘good chance.’ (Going from memory from something I read some years ago.)
Not terribly historical, but: Hot pan, cold oil: foods won’t stick. The real reason that was taught for generations in Home Ec classes was to keep home cooks from putting oils in a cold pan, turning the burner on, letting the pan come to temperature while they continue with other prep activities, only to turn around and see a raging fire in the pan because they lost track of time. It’s ok for a dry pan to overheat - it might damage the pan, but it won’t start a kitchen fire - but if you overheat oil, things can get quite exciting very quickly.
Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet) was famous for repeating this myth. A LOT.
Some things I think have always been known by historians but not necessarily the general public.
Who was the first person to sail around the world? Magellan always gets credit but he died in the Philippines. Nobody knows the name of the guy who actually got the last surviving ship back home. Let alone the names of the rest of the crew who also circumnavigated the globe.
By “nobody knows” I mean it’s not common knowledge. The info is readily available in the googles though.
I suspect you know very well that Grant had no “S” initial. His first name was Hiram, but he scarpered away from that because no one wants to be a warrior with initials HUG.
Nobody knows who Sebastian Elcano was?
By the time Magellan’s ships left Asia many of Magellan’s sailors had already circumnavigated the world because of previous voyages there from the West. They started their eventual circumnavigation from Asia years before. The first man to circumnavigate the globe is generally considered to be Magellan’s Malay slave, Enrique.
How is every crew member on the boat who stepped off in Sanlucar after having stepped on the boat there several years before not the first man to circumnavigate the globe?
As I pointed out above, the first man to circumnavigate the globe did not start in Sanlucar. If you want to talk about the first ship or expedition, that might be the answer; but not first person.
They usually credit it as his Voyage.
I think Magellan is an example of a common myth. The Great man of history myth.
It’s the Strait of Magellan not the Strait of Enrique from Malacca.
Magellan did do that bit,