Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac we actually did not announce until relatively recently that this discovery had been made. Thank you. Sure. Anymore . Last chance here. I got an observation and maybe you can comment on it. When you showed and mentioned that the guy the soldier was hit with. 69 caliber buck shot, to me that says smooth bore, which you mentioned, but it also says to me close range. Otherwise that buck shot is going to go all over the place. If he has three different buck shots hitting him, thats pretty close combat there. That is an element that i would be happy to talk about for a second. The first soldier with the infield muscat, it was sighted up to a hundred yards. It was plausible that that soldier could have been shot from a few hundred yards away. The smooth bores this would have been a. 65 caliber round ball. They had a front sight. They were generally considered to be accurate for hitting a mansized target at about 65 yards or less. In terms
Mr. Orrison good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a really good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. [laughter] mr. Orrison it is kind of funny, actually. Drew gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] time, i am at this going to introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] mr. Gruber i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis yesterday said s
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Or over the webcast, good morning and welcome to the Brookings Institution. We are very glad to have you with us today. My name is john allen, the president of brookings. And we are glad to welcome you today to this event entitled impeachment, what happens now . This is an extraordinary moment for america. As for the fourth time in our history, u. S. House leadership has launched a formal him preach met inquiry into the a formal impeachment a query into the resident of United States and its a great moment. The stakes are undoubtedly high, not just for this country but for the world as well. Ladies and gentlemen, the constitution of the united in the house of representatives, the sole power to impeach a public official while it further vests the senate the sole power to try all impeachment. S. This separation of role was vital in the minds of the framers of our constitution to ensure that the enormity of the power to remove from Public Office, to impeach, was not concentrated in the han