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Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders...

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.

It seems the two crooks never learned two things:

they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house.

She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee-crouch aim.

He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.

When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the ...street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery.

That victim, 50-year-old David 0'Burien, was not so lucky.

He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news........?

An 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself......against two murderous, illegal immigrants.......and she wins.

She is still alive. Now THAT is Gun Control!

Thought for the day.... Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist.

'I like this kind of e-mail! American citizens defending themselves and their homes."

Has anyone read or know anymore detail about this subject ?

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BRENDAN O'BRIEN

Skye, 1882

The last major battle on British soil led to the destruction of the Highland way of life.

FOLLOWING the Jacobite’s devastating defeat at Culloden in 1746, the Highland way of life came under increasing scrutiny. The threat was at first political, as the government imposed restrictions on their cultural customs and language. However, the gravest threat was economic, and one that eventually changed the Highland landscape.

After Culloden, the Highland population grew rapidly and by 1850 had increased by 50 per cent. While the Highlanders had more mouths to feed, the landlords - often clan chiefs and therefore kinsmen - wanted to exploit the land for profit.

The old road south from Portree to Sligachan in Skye, near the area known as The Braes, with the Cuillins in the backround.

Highlanders had survived for centuries by crofting - living off a stretch of land for which they paid rent to their landlords. The farmers and land owners supplemented this meagre income with the lucrative kelp trade - seaweed, used in glassmaking, bleach and soap during the Napoleonic wars. But peace with France in 1815 ended this industry and the landlords turned their attention to sheep grazing, which required evicting their kinsmen from the crofts.

In 1882, the crofters of Skye refused to pay rent to Lord MacDonald until their animal grazing rights were returned. The Lord turned to the law to evict the crofters, and in April a sheriff's officer was sent to issue an ejection summons to the crofters. The angry crofters forced the officer to burn the document, and the Sheriff of Inverness requested assistance from the Glasgow constabulary to enforce the law.

Fifty policemen were sent and arrived at the Braes, a district near Portree on Skye. The crofters were surprised at first, but soon around a hundred men, women and children met the policemen armed with sticks and stones. Several people were injured; five men were arrested and fines were imposed on some at Inverness court. This confrontation became known as the Battle of the Braes. Its claim to be the last land battle fought on British shores is an exaggeration – it was more of a land dispute than any pitched battle.

It became clear after the struggle that the Highlanders would not be evicted without military assistance. The confrontation received widespread publicity, sympathetic to the Highlanders, from journalists who had travelled with the policemen to Skye. Parliament, unwilling to use the army to force the crofters to comply and pushed by public sentiment, passed a series of measures granting the crofters more security in their tenure. The confrontation is celebrated with a monument on Skye and through Scottish folk songs.

Scots under Robert the Bruce, outnumbered 3-1, won a decisive victory against Edward II's English army.

Local knowledge and new Scots battle formation nullified superior English forces. English army fled in panic when local townsfolk joined the battle 23 & 24 June 1314

BRENDAN O'BRIEN

Robert the Bruce fought a bloody guerrilla war against the English for 18 years after Scotland was occupied by Edward I, "Hammer of the Scots". By the time Edward I died, the Bruce had regained most of the lowlands of Scotland. In 1314, Bruce besieged the only castle south of the Forth under English control - Stirling.

Sir Philip Mowbray, the English commander of Stirling Castle, agreed to surrender to the Scots if his force was not relieved at the end of June. Edward II, new King of England, decided to send a large force - perhaps 25,000 men - to relieve the garrison and deliver a crushing blow to the Scots' rebellion.

Robert the Bruce's army was outnumbered 3-1, with some accounts having the English force so large that it stretched for 20 miles. However, the Scots stole the tactical advantage from the superior English army.

The chief advantage of the English army was its heavy cavalry. As these knights smashed through infantry the weight and momentum of their charge crushed the enemy’s front lines and spread panic. Without the protection of their formations the now disorganised infantry were easy pickings for the knights who had the advantage of striking down on their enemies from height and who could see the tide of battle from horseback.

But the knights needed space and solid ground to charge, so the Bruce cunningly positioned his soldiers on a hill between two woods that protected his flanks. The knights relied on a frontal assault, but the only direct route to the Scottish infantry was over marsh land between two burns that lead to the River Forth. The English knights were trapped on dangerous ground with their retreat cut off by the water.

The Bruce had another weapon to steal the thunder from the English cavalry’s charge. To counter the armoured horse, the Scots developed a new infantry formation called the schiltron – a cluster of soldiers armed with extra long spears rammed into the earth. When the knights charged they would be confronted by a wall of spears that could not be swept aside and would be impaled on the Scottish pikes by their own momentum.

The first skirmish of the battle took place on 23 June 1314 when a contingent of English knights was sent by Edward II to relieve the garrison at Stirling Castle. The Scots spotted their deployment and sent a company of schiltrons to block their route. When the English came upon them they charged but were broken under the Scottish pikes. As the knights fled the Scots spearmen did something unheard of and counter-attacked. For the first time in medieval warfare infantry had stood against an assault of heavy cavalry and won.

The English knew they had conceded the tactical advantage by confronting the Scots on their own terms. To make their assault over the marsh they took doors and thatch from the roofs of nearby homes and formed bridges over the marsh.

The following day the English knights charged the bulk of the Scots force, but they were disorganised by having to cross the narrow bridges and were beaten back. The English dispatched their archers to break-up the Scots infantry but the arrows peppered the retreating English knights as well the Scots. The dominance of the Scots' schiltrons was assured when the English archers were swept from the field by mounted infantry.

As the English cavalry was pressed back into the marsh, the order for the English infantry to advance was given. But the knights could only flee over the same makeshift bridges that their infantry were advancing on. The infantry could not retreat except through the marsh while the weight of their rear pushed them forward into their own cavalry. In the clash between the two forces the English infantry was crushed underneath the heavy horse or drowned in the marsh.

The Scots now advanced without the English archers to impede them. With victory in sight, the Bruce had one final trick up his sleeve. He had positioned camp followers and townsfolk in the woods disguised as soldiers and as news of the battle spread they arrived in numbers to view the victory. The English, believing they were about to be flanked by a second Scottish army, fled the field in blind panic. Their king only narrowly escaped capture.

Some other accounts claim the "townsfolk" were in fact a contingent of the near mythic Knights Templar, an order of dedicated religious warriors from the Continent. While this appears fanciful it is not entirely incredible. The Knights Templar had a base in Scotland, at Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, after being excommunicated by the Pope. Also there are questions as to how the Bruce, a homeless king with minimal resources, managed to fund a prolonged campaign against England. Those who support the involvement of the Knights Templar, whose order had become vastly rich from the Holy lands, believe they provided Bruce with funds so they could secure a Scottish home.

Regardless of the identity of the "second army", the English were crushed at Bannockburn. They had arrived certain of ending the Scottish uprising once and for all with a massive army and using forces never before defeated on the field of battle. Instead of breaking the Scots, they were themselves broken and their heavy cavalry was no longer unbeatable. The Scots had taken Stirling Castle, the gateway to the Highlands, and instead of fighting on two fronts could now focus on the final English force on Scottish soil in the Borders. Bannockburn was a battle against such overwhelming odds that its victory made Bruce a military legend. Without it, one could arge, there would be no Scottish nation.

This article: http://heritage.scotsman.com/diagrams.cfm?cid=5&id=40062005

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Some claim Robert the Bruce had help from the Knights Templar, who are associated with the mysterious Rosslyn Chapel.

BANNOCKBURN was the decisive battle in Scotland's wars of independence.

Find out more about the battle site from the National Trust for Scotland at the NTS Bannockburn heritage center