Anonymous ID: 24b233 April 11, 2023, 6:44 p.m. No.18680872   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0901

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>Blackstone Raises $30 Billion For "Largest Ever" Real Estate Drawdown Fund To Capitalize On Commercial Real Estate Crisis

 

why is blackstone advertising so much on TV lately?

Did they use to advertise and I just didn't pay attention?

Or do they need to revamp their image?

Anonymous ID: 24b233 April 11, 2023, 7:17 p.m. No.18681060   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1075 >>1077 >>1121 >>1171 >>1209 >>1221

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https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/george-washington-nearly-unkillable/

 

Why George Washington was nearly impossible to kill

Blake Stilwell

 

Published June 27, 2022 05:44:02

 

He should have died at the Battle of the Monongahela

 

He had dysentery the whole time

 

Near what we today call Pittsburgh,a British force under General Edward Braddock was soundly defeated by a force of French Canadians and Indians during the French and Indian War. Braddock died of wounds sustained in the fighting, but Washington survived despite having two horses shot out from under him. When all was said and done, he also found four musket-ball holes in his coat.

Anonymous ID: 24b233 April 11, 2023, 7:21 p.m. No.18681077   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1121 >>1153 >>1221

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>>18681060

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The Indian legend of George Washington’s divine protection

 

For over a century and a half, until 1934, the Indian account of George Washington’s divine protection in the Battle of Monongahela in the French and Indian War was standard in our history textbooks until removed, presumably by those skeptical or dismissive of God’s intervention in the affairs of man. Today, few Americans know of it as those in the above category and the enemies of the republic seek to belittle our founders. We celebrate the birthday of George Washington Feb. 22 by returning our attention to this miraculous event.

 

In the French and Indian War, 1,400 British troops marched over the Appalachian Mountains to seize French Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. Col. George Washington, then 23, took the rear of General Edward Braddock’s army mostly because he considered American soldiers inferior. The problem was that the European style of warfare was to march into a clearing facing an opponent who did the same: stop, load, and fire, never breaking rank. The British, in bright red uniforms, made perfect targets. Hiding behind trees or rocks was considered cowardly.

 

Fifteen years later, Washington and Dr. Craik, a personal physician and close friend, were traveling through those same woods near the Ohio river and Great Kanawha river. They were met by an old Indian chief who addressed Washington through an interpreter with the following story:

 

“I am a chief and ruler over my tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man’s blood mixed with the streams of our forests that I first beheld this Chief. I called to my young men and said, mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe – he hath an Indian’s wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do – himself alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss – `twas all in vain, a power mightier far than we, shielded you.”One warrior declared: “I had seventeen fair fires at him with my rifle and after all could not bring him to the ground! Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you.”

 

Then his prophecy: “I am old and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades, but ere I go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy: Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man and guides his destinies – he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle” (“The man who could not be killed,” George Washington Parke Curtis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1859).

 

The chief’s prophecy came true. Perhaps it is time to be less dismissive and more inclusive of the hand of God in the affairs of this nation.