Samual Whittemore fought in: King George’s War (1747), the War of Austrian Succession, the French and Indian War, Pontiacs war, and became the oldest known fighter in the US Revolutionary war at 78 years old.
https://youtu.be/rDo6x0MhERE
I rember there was a guy who fought in the was of 1812 {maybe the rev war too) and then showed up at Gettysburg to fight with the Union with a old ass flint lock.
Highly doubt he fought in the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783 and Gettysburg was 1863. If this guy had fought in the Revolutionary War at 15, he’d be 95 at Gettysburg. Not impossible, but seems very unlikely
Arlington Massachusetts? If it's the one mentioned in the video, it's literally in front of the house that Whittemore lived in when the revolutionary war started. And also, wrong lol. The memorial states that he died at 98 and shot the Britts at 80, but he was actually 78 and died at 96. There have been multiple historical documents that prove it, and the only source that says he was 80 is that memorial, but they don't want to change it to correct it because the memorial itself is so old.
He walked out of his house with a rifle and two dueling pistols that he had… acquired from someone who he said “didn’t need them anymore”… He then shot three redcoats, took cover to reload and while he was reloading the redcoats attacked him and bayoneted him a bunch.
A doctor was able to save him, and he lived another 18 years (died at 96 years old).
Interesting read. Graduated from West Point along with Custer in June 1861 and sent off to war. Before the Civil War ended, he shifted to engineering and worked in that role the rest of his career.
Samual Whittemore fought in: King George’s War (1747), the War of Austrian Succession, the French and Indian War, Pontiacs war, and became the oldest known fighter in the US Revolutionary war at 78 years old. https://youtu.be/rDo6x0MhERE
I rember there was a guy who fought in the was of 1812 {maybe the rev war too) and then showed up at Gettysburg to fight with the Union with a old ass flint lock.
Highly doubt he fought in the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783 and Gettysburg was 1863. If this guy had fought in the Revolutionary War at 15, he’d be 95 at Gettysburg. Not impossible, but seems very unlikely
i have to try and look it up i remember he was very very old. but maybe only war of 1812 old.
I’m a simple man, I see The Fat Electrician, I upvote. Guy makes quality content
There’s a pretty badass memorial plaque in his honor back in my hometown
Arlington Massachusetts? If it's the one mentioned in the video, it's literally in front of the house that Whittemore lived in when the revolutionary war started. And also, wrong lol. The memorial states that he died at 98 and shot the Britts at 80, but he was actually 78 and died at 96. There have been multiple historical documents that prove it, and the only source that says he was 80 is that memorial, but they don't want to change it to correct it because the memorial itself is so old.
He was shot and bayonetted a bunch too after smoking some Redcoats. Lived more than a decade after too IIRC?
He walked out of his house with a rifle and two dueling pistols that he had… acquired from someone who he said “didn’t need them anymore”… He then shot three redcoats, took cover to reload and while he was reloading the redcoats attacked him and bayoneted him a bunch. A doctor was able to save him, and he lived another 18 years (died at 96 years old).
He just loved war.
At least he didn’t live long enough to know there was a Second World War.
He should have known once the Germans started referring to it as WW1.
He died in 1921… that was 17 years before the second war. The first and second war weren’t referanced as such until maybe 1935 at the earliest.
Welcome to the joke!
Whooosh
I miss a lot of jokes… I don’t get what I missed here.
No one called it ww1 until ww2 happened. Well into the 40s, ww1 was the Great War or the war to end all wars.
I get that. The war started in 1938. What I’m not understanding is why I’m being downvoted and told I’m missing something.
The joke is that it’s implied that the Germans were calling it ww1 DURING the Great War
Autism can have its down sides.
That’s what they want you to think.
That man? George Santos
[ Oh boy, here I go killing again ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6DifUtPvs)
I guess it's time to go to war *AGAIN*
So anyway I started blasting
Bad Guys: "Let's start shit!" Peter Hains: "sigh... Alright..."
“You tell those Germans I’ll fight any country including my own!”
Fightin' Round the World
Big Boss.
And they wouldn't let TR serve in wwi
So Logan with out the super long life span?
Interesting read. Graduated from West Point along with Custer in June 1861 and sent off to war. Before the Civil War ended, he shifted to engineering and worked in that role the rest of his career.
War machine
War. War never changes.
Bro just lived for the beef