On the heels of our Independence from one European power, President Thomas Jefferson issued a tacit warning to others...

President Jefferson was concerned about this young nation's continued ability to freely navigate the Mississippi River.

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 By the middle of the 18th century, France controlled more of the present-day United States than any other European power: from New Orleans northeast to the Great Lakes and northwest to modern-day Montana.

U.S. officials feared that France, resurgent under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte, would soon seek to dominate the Mississippi River and access to the Gulf of Mexico. In a letter to U.S. minister to France Robert Livingston, President Thomas Jefferson stated, “The day that France takes possession of New Orleans…we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.”

Livingston was ordered to negotiate with French Finance Minister Barbé-Marbois for the purchase of New Orleans.

 Our Tennessee studs who were leaving the densely populated East for better economic opportunities in the Tennessee Valley breathed a sigh of relief...

They were highly dependent on access to the port in New Orleans.

Like President Trump, President Jefferson recognized the weaknesses of those who would colonize North America.

Despite Napoleon's rampages in Europe, our commander-in-chief's Spidey Sense was not activated.

You're probably right, Martha.  Look at the much feared Napoleon...

A great representative of a typical Frenchman, Napoleon did not instill fear in anyone.

Except Spain...

The British navy was now King of the Seas.

Or should I say Queen of the Seas...

And introduced two more studs, forerunners of some truly remarkable explorers and military men...  

Leading the Corps of Discovery, a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers, were Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

...allowing for the annexation of Texas in 1845.  

Why was the annexation of Texas, prompting the Mexican-American War, so important to the Democrats?

Yes, Martha, the war that claimed the life of a Tennessee stud and representative to the United States House of Representatives, killed in the Texas Revolution.

Yet another hero from the Volunteer State...

My younger son, Dylan, made me so proud when he presented a great Davy Crockett historical perspective to his second grade class. 

His teacher was highlighting famous Tennessee Volunteers.  She tasked her students to develop a fifteen minute speech, utilizing note cards, for presentation to the class.

A great costume rental place on Dayton Boulevard in Red Bank provided just what we needed for Dylan's attire.

With that beautiful coonskin cap, my young stud became the buckskin-clad 'King of the Wild Frontier'.

I will never forget watching this young man with his presentation and articulation so reminiscent of his mother's skills.

I'm confident she was looking down in her Overwatch role, adding more beauty to Heaven with her incredible smile...

Further, he eschewed his note cards.

As did his big brother, Kris, the year he was declared a top Royal Ambassador at the Tennessee competition at Belmont College.

As a five year old...

Those are my boys!!!

Says the Banty Rooster...

 Too weak to fight standing, he utilized a pistol and his famed knife before succumbing to the Mexican onslaught.

I attended Central High School in Columbia, TN, home of the 11th President, as a consequence of my father's selection as part of a most prestigious cadre at the Columbia Military Academy.

Captain Polk was a member of the Maury County Cavalry in the Tennessee Militia.  

He was, however, a Democrat lawyer.

He wanted Texas badly as a slave state.

Yes, Martha, he loved those black slaves; his plantation in Mississippi added a substantial number of slaves during his presidency.

 The roots of the Demoncrat Party lay in the exploitation of slave labor.

Not the Republican Party...

 True to his campaign pledge to serve one term (one of the few U.S. presidents to make and keep such a pledge), Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee, where he died of cholera soon afterward. 

Hate when that happens...

...in order to justify the 1846 Oregon boundary dispute and the 1845 annexation of Texas as a slave state.

 President  Lyndon Baines Johnson once said, "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for 200 years." 

Despite all the historic revisionism by the Demoncrats, I did, in fact, hear him utter those famous words as he acquiesced to the Republicans and signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I was ten years old.

 Manifest Destiny on steroids...

Xi's visit highlights Panama's potential as 'gateway to the Americas'...

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f324d444d31457a6333566d54/index.html

 China stomping all over President Monroe's paramount edict...

The Nuclear Umbrella...

Remember when the filthy Democrats (before their further devolution...) mocked my boss, President Ronald Reagan's similar recognition of something to replace the DEW line?

Dumbass know-nothings, with primary focus on infanticide, wanted also to place the entire United States population under constant threat of vaporization.

Thank God for his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

God's children in Israel have extended their survival for decades by their advancing the technology President Reagan envisioned.

The Prince of Persia is always at the gate...

The United States Space Force's Northern Hemisphere FOB

Thule Air Base

These forward-operating soldiers and airmen were separated from their families for a year.

And in a most hostile environment...

DoD did what they could to ameliorate the challenges presented these remarkable military service members.

Outstanding mess facilities and a most delicious variety of food goes a long way in that endeavor...

Napoleon was correct:

An army marches on its stomach...

Also, VHS tapes of the most recent Hollywood productions, before their release to the public, were provided.

A couple of  years later, I would witness this sort of compensation accorded to Air Traffic Control and Special Forces tactical operation centers on the DMZ.

No leaving that mountain except in certain circumstances...

Those insertions and extractions of my tactical dental teams accorded me the opportunity to see, first hand, these Manly Men keeping an eye on the enemy that measured in the millions.

And just a few clicks away...

Their isolation increased the appreciation of my BOQ in Yongsan that much more...