Happy Evacuation Day everyone (and remember, St. Patrick was English, not Irish)

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

On this day in history, March 17, 1776, British troops flee Boston after dramatic 11-month siege by militia

Nearly 10,000 British troops with loyalists in tow fled Boston in disgrace on this day in history, March 17, 1776. It is celebrated as Evacuation Day in Boston, Massachusetts.

www.foxnews.com

 

[rudedude]

Evacuation Day? Sounds like a colonoscopy prep!

 

[TheBigUglies]

I thought St Patrick was actually Italian. Son of Roman Aristocracy that settled Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick

I could use a good evacuation today.

 

[CF Lion]

Probably wanted to get out before the parade started in Southie.

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

I thought St Patrick was actually Italian. Son of Roman Aristocracy that settled Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick

I could use a good evacuation today.

Born/raised under Roman rule... there is actually some who think he was born in what is now Scotland. He just wasn't born/raised in the Emerald
Isle

 

[LionJim]

He just wasn't born/raised in the Emerald
Isle

Neither was I but I’m as Irish as they come. (Dad was born in Dorchester, Boston. O’Toole, Riordan, McNamara are names in my more recent genealogy.)

 

[TheBigUglies]

Born/raised under Roman rule... there is actually some who think he was born in what is now Scotland. He just wasn't born/raised in the Emerald
Isle

Read he was born 20 miles north of Hadrian's Wall which puts him born in Scotland, so actully Scottish by birth but descendant of Italians:
Patrick's father, Calpurnius, is described as a decurion (Senator and tax collector) of an unspecified Romano-British city, and as a deacon; his randfather Potitus was a priest from Bonaven Tabernia.

Thinking great grandparents were Intercontinentia Buttics and Bigus Dickus who were of course friends of Ceaser.

 

[step.eng69]

Evacuation Day? Sounds like a colonoscopy prep!

Jeebus dude,
Can't stop laughing, remember this scene vividly in the flick.