Les están comiendo la billetera, para no caer en la grosería más
tradicional; les cosen el orto con punto festón, más decorativo que él se usa
para los ojales.
Que conste que no es solo una argentinada de las burguesías porteñas y/o
provincianas aporteñadas; creen, en serio, que es comienzo de una “Primavera Sudamericana”,
similar a la árabe.
Esa misma que se está llevando puesta la supremacía anglosajona en Medio
Oriente.
En fin, como no han estudiado el tema; ni siquiera comprenden porque fueron
barridos, electoralmente, los ciber-miltantes egipcios por los más
tradicionales “Poderes Organizados”.
Mantengamos la conmiseración, y dejémosle disfrutar la Ilusión.
En realidad, para las matinées del Club Americano, Jockey y el Círculo de
Armas; solo sirven para el Agit-Prop Mediático, no inciden, ni mellan, lo “concreto”.
El “juego” depende, básicamente, de los “errores no forzados” de la Administración
Nacional; o sea, los émulos de JAP.
Although the British had suffered heavier casualties
than the Americans (many inflicted by Barney's guns), they had completely
routed the defenders. The British casualties were 64 dead and 185 wounded.[1]
Some of the British dead "died without sustaining a scratch. They
collapsed from heat exhaustion and the strain of punishing forced marches over
the five days since landing at Benedict".[23] Heidler's Encyclopedia of
the War of 1812 gives the American loss as "10 or 12 killed, 40
wounded" and "about 100" captured.[1] Henry Adams and John S.
Williams both give the American casualties as 26 killed and 51 wounded.[24]
Joseph A. Whitehorne says that the Americans lost "120 taken prisoner,
many of these wounded".[25] Ten cannon were captured by the British.[2]
Aftermath
The hasty and disorganized American retreat led to the
battle becoming known as the Bladensburg Races from an 1816 poem. The battle
was termed "the greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms" and
"the most humiliating episode in American history."[19] The American
militia actually fled through the streets of Washington. President James
Madison and most of the rest of the federal government had been present at the
battle, and had nearly been captured. They too fled the capital, and scattered
through Maryland and Virginia. That same night the British entered Washington
unopposed and set fire to many of the government buildings in what became known
as the Burning of Washington.
Lieutenant General Prevost had urged Vice Admiral
Cochrane to avenge the Raid on Port Dover on the north shore of Lake Erie
earlier in the year, in which the undefended settlement had been set ablaze by
American troops. Cochrane had issued a proclamation that American property was
forfeit; only the lives of the civilian inhabitants were to be spared. He had
issued a private memorandum to his captains however, which allowed them to levy
what was effectively protection money in return for sparing buildings. In
practice, there was little or no looting or wanton destruction of private
property by Ross's troops or Cochrane's sailors during the advance and the
occupation of Washington. However, when the British later withdrew to their
ships in the Patuxent, discipline was less effective (partly because of
fatigue) and there was considerable looting by foraging parties and stragglers
and deserters.[26]
After Major General Ross was killed at the Battle of
North Point on 12 September 1814, his descendants were given an augmentation of
honour to their armorial bearings and their family name was changed to the
victory title Ross-of-Bladensburg in memory of Ross' most famous
battle.[citation needed]
The lineages of the 5th Maryland Regiment and the
Columbian Division are perpetuated by the present-day 175th Infantry (ARNG MD)
and the HHD/372nd Military Police Battalion (ARNG DC), respectively, two of
only nineteen Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of
1812. The lineages of the old 36th and 38th Infantry Regiments are perpetuated
by three currently active battalions of the 4th Infantry (1-4 Inf, 2-4 Inf and
3-4 Inf).
