Pilgrams, Cornwallis, and Mosquitos…Or—Blame the Poor Innocent Bug.
Nobody Remembers
In 1605, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, sailed down the coast of New England looking for a nice place to settle. The New England coast was a GREAT place, but Champlain decided that too many people lived there. He didn’t even try to stay. Fifteen years later the English showed up in Massachusetts. The Pilgrims set down, failed miserably at first, then took a strong foothold. 
Why did they succeed while the French did not? According to Pilgrim colonist, William Bradford, three years before the Mayflower, a ship of Frenchmen shipwrecked and set up on Cape Cod. The Indians killed all of them but 3 or 4. ONE of those captors gave the Indians a disease which was carried all along the New England coast. So many Indians died so quickly that they didn’t even have time to bury their dead. The Indians had no protection against smallpox, influenza, measles or malaria. Almost two-thirds of the populace died, which explains why it was so easy for the British to survive. Nobody was around.
And that wasn’t the first time that disease influenced our history.
Because of an outbreak of malaria in the South, (In the beginning) so many people died that it created a labor shortage. The demand for black African slaves started, due to a bug. Most Africans were immune to the type of malaria that was imported from England.
You could say that a mosquito, caused the importation of slaves. This was long before the local grocery store. 
(Always follow the money. It works every time.)
It was also here that during the American Revolution, British general Charles Cornwallis, occupied the Carolinas, where mosquitoes thrived with the malaria eggs inside them. With half his army sick, Cornwallis retreated to Yorktown, where the rest of his army fell sick. He lost the war soon afterwards.
So…who knows what would have been the outcome of the Revolution if Cornwallis’s army had not come down with malaria, you might ask?
Nobody Thinks: We would have still won.
Before you think that the poor Cornwallis was robbed of his army remember: Washington lost as many of his battles due to horrible disease, cold, and lack of supplies— Valley Forge being the prime example–yet still manage to win, so, Nobody Thinks he still deserves the historical credit, even with and despite…our home stand advantage.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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All I can say on all of nobody’s opinions,right on the money!! But no one wants to believe any of this goes on, NOT IN AMERICA. NOT IN A FREE COUNTRY! WELL THAT’S BECAUSE WE ARE NO LONGER A FREE COUNTRY! What are our Rights any more?????? Are We The People, No We Are not, Look Around you,who is passing laws and putting into affect what Laws they put out there and Pass????? not We The People!! The fourth was for pretty fireworks,lights, it meant nothing more,certainly not FREEDOM as it once did. Our men and women are dying and being maimed for what??
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Mossies… from cold, dank England?? Crikey, I have heard the English blamed for everything from Railways to clean hospitals, to sound Institutions and the Industrial Revolution but hardly ever for Mossies.
As it says in the Bible somewhere, “Yea, it shalt come to pass that there shalt be Signs and thou shalt pulleth mine leg”.
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Okay, which leg did I pull?
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