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Date Posted: 13:20:21 06/25/01 Mon
Author: Nancy
Author Host/IP: spider-tr023.proxy.aol.com / 152.163.201.183
Subject: Abraham Lincoln's Instructions!!

In 1832, during the Black Hawk war (a conflict between the U.S. and the Sac and Fox Indians), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), then a young captain of the Bucktail Rangers, was in command of his platoon as they marched across the country.

Lincoln was rather ignorant of matters of drill, tactics, and formations; and when his soldiers came to a fence and a gate, he had no idea how to deal with the situation in the proper military way. So he commanded, "Halt, Company dismissed for two minutes. At the end of that time, reassemble on the other side of the fence."

Nancy :)

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