Broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is Arch International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us lets just start off with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan on europes southern border with asia a hospital has been hit by a large explosion in the disputed province of bach and there are unconfirmed reports of casualties as well earlier the regions main city was bombed from the air and locals have been hearing the regular sound of air raid sirens. Several buildings were damaged including the Emergency Ministry where the windows were shattered and holes through the walls the defense ministry. For the airstrikes and put its army units on full combat alert has not confirmed or denied the bombing raids. It has come under probably the heaviest shelling since we arrived here 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city usually what we could hear what we could see the smoke from the explosions which were on the outskirts in the suburbs this is
Head. Guest it got lucky with the timing. Somebody said i should buy a Powerball Ticket because i can see the future. When do you start writing black . When you write the proposal or turn in the manuscript . I would say five years ago i start writing columns and around the time sarah palin went rogue. I thought after the race she got radicalized and changed, and i started seeing candidates like Christine Odonnell and sharon anle saying thing is felt uncomfortable with as a conservative. They were casting themselves as a victim, playing the victim card, which struck me as unconservative, and it was short of a populist tone that got me writing about the topic, and the week my book comes out, sarah palin endorses donald trump. I couldnt have planned that. Amazing time. Let get back to back lex, firstd poem of the intellectual history of conservatism. I know when i go to colleges i tell students, youd be surprised to learn that the rock stars that the manhattan cometail parties used to be
If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as battles. I mentioned the spelling difference. There were two branches, most of the
At the very moment the confederates come out at what was called devils den ready to attack, there was vincent putting his men into position. They attacked only minutes of vincent with his manager position. So his place ing of the men he did it on its own without any authority saved the day because those guys beat back the attack. Unfortunately, the confederate attack was years. Part of the lines began to buckle. Visit sees that part of the line was starting to cave in, rushed to the side and had his wife writing and is the with white writing crop. He just had the white writing crop. He was saying hold your position and had the writing crop in the air, and it was a perfect target. It got to the abdomen and proved fatal a couple of days later. Chamberlain who is been under vincent, developed a very close friendship was in charge of one end of the line took over when vincent was mortally wounded. He did not die right away. He was carried to the back. Chamberlain took over. Within the next
Okay, our next speaker should be familiar to everybody here, thats patrick schroeder. Patrick, is as you know his story, in the courthouse in National Historic park. And hes worked with me one of our other speakers, the third speaker today ron wilson, is the person who helped get this seminar together for the first time in 1999, the e 20 0. And then when ron retired patrick took over with working with longwood on this seminar. Patrick has history degrees from Shepherd College and from virginia tech. Hes worked as a Seasonal Employee and probably, as many of you know patrick has written numerous books related to that campaign and other aspects of the war. Several pamphlets. The 30 millionths about lees surrender, cemetery at aplamatics. Probably his most important work is we came to fight, a history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. He helped finish the vortex of hell. Thats a great book to have. Both of those. Patricks book and the one he helped brian finish. Hes very heavily i