SMITH HUBBARD & TICHENOR

GOLDENGATE’S

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for April 21, 2013

FALSE FLAG

WHY HAS MIDS. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER BEEN FALSE FLAGGED as a CIVILIAN and NON-COMBATANT, DESPITE HIS

SERVICE ABOARD the U.S. S. HORNET, DURING the WAR of 1812 ?

But first ….

From the desk of ….

PLAYERS!!!

Welcome to our COVERT & HIGHLY CLASSIFIED FALSE FLAG Issue

… in which we find ourselves in BOSTON HARBOR !

Among the “BOSTONS” – [That is, the AMERICANS!! -- I’ll explain below !!!—Ed.] mounting a concerted resistance to roving

British PRESSGANGS onshore -- YES! Even among BOSTONS!! -- … and ruthless IMPRESSMENTS at sea!

This Week, Our FALSE FLAG Issue opens in October, 1812 : a few months into engagements in The IMPRESSMENTS WAR of 1812 -

sometimes called the Second American Revolution – in which, the U.S. royally whupped British butt [Again – Ed.] and sent the Empire

packing!! Wowee!!! WOWEE!! Way Cool. Players ….

…was the slogan!! But, PLAYERS!!! … that almost makes it sound too simple !!! YES!!

For THAT OBJECT was ACHIEVED only at SOME COST!! Of course, in LIVES thrown in the face of TYRANNY through force of SUPERIOR SEAMANSHIP harnessed to HEROISM on the ALTAR of FREEDOM But, PLAYERS: In order to reach that point there was … hmmm. considerable forethought expended in Preparations for War!!! The “Groundwork” had to be laid – but, as it was a Naval War, the “Goundwork” was “Waterworks” and took place in the young America’s seaports, in her harbors: dockside ! Not just through the building of ships, and the forging of armaments, but ALSO through the design of subterfuges, stratagems of war, deceptions and … YES:

FALSE FLAGS. Players: OUR STORY begins in October, 1812, in Boston harbor, currently blockaded by a British squadron… Among the vessels of the U.S. squadron blockaded within the harbor, is the U.S. Sloop -of -War Hornet, of a sleek new design, under command of Lt. James Lawrence. It is shown here in a perfectly-executed nautical profile, but without her sails --- and… oddly… with …

ENSIGNS INVERTED in the ultimate Signal of Distress:

NO!! Not …. … “engines”!

They didn’t have engines yet !! Ensigns!! That refers to our FLAG!! Old Glory is Upside-Down!! Why?

BUT WAIT !!! Players !!! DECEPTIONS during the IMPRESSMENTS WAR of 1812 ??? I’m not forgetting that these martial deceptions are well-trod territory – at least for the venerable [NoTE: None of these issues are August – Ed.] old P.Y.M. ™ PUZZLER !!! Players!!! PLEASE!! Kindly stifle any urge to burst out laughing at these sorry old graphics!!! The content was peerless, always!! Me and Suzie Cue will vouch for that!!! These were all Dromgoole’s offerings…[Remember!! He was at the time fighting off our class-action law-suit with very little assistance from “corporate”; as meanwhile he plotted the murder of Pierre Bleaudry – of happy memory !!! YES!!! The very same “P” whose initial is now a household word!!! – Ed.] Most notable was the PUZZLER for Sept. 25, 2011, Eaux Que, Mr. Bleaudry: Whom Was the Real Phillip Freneau?

YES!!!

PLAYERS!!!!

Mmm-hmmmm…

WHO WAS HE ….. Really?

MAN OF MYSTERY …

Phillip Freneau, as Robert Slender, aka Hezekiah Salem -- ca. 1773 ( © Asaph P. Dromgoole)

Treatments of the Impressments War of 1812 have also been notable in the BARTLEBY series of P.Y.M.™ PUZZLERS -- which I was obliged to defend early this year, after a challenge posed to me, by Ass. Dr. Beckon!

PLAYERS -- -- !!

That reminds me: Ere we proceed further, I want to offer this apology for the particular TOPIC of This Week’s S.Y.M.-Zonia™ !! As most of you will recall, I had intimated Last Week, at the close of Last Week’s amazing STONE IDOL Issue, that This Week we would all be rejoining Stephanie and Unk in Port Orford, (Oregon), for the follow-up on the SH&T, LLP Grand Opening POETRY SLAM !!!! It was going to be held at the Whale-of-A-Tale Café … I think !!!! Or maybe GRIFF’S … ??

And in conjunction therewith, I had all but promised to run a 2nd OPINION Issue of S.Y.M.-Zonia™ - along these lines:

WHO WAS the SECOND SURVEYOR (!) on the SCREW-STEAMER SEA GULL, WHO VENTURED to VOYAGE w/ VITUS WACKENREUDER

the BETTER to PLAT PORT ORFORD, (Oregon)?

More or less….. and, as is now pretty apparent, I didn’t “go with that” topic – ULTIMATELY, that is !!!! But… I did get started on it, was reviewing a few final layouts for This Week’s cover, as submitted by “Design” -- including one version that introduced our NEW and UPCOMING CONTEST!!!! Yet to be disclosed !!! Wowee!!!

PLAYERS!!! I could use Your Help!! Which one of these 2nd OPINION Covers do YOU think I should use !!!

SO, that was the plan anyway!!!! And then came …. The FALSE FLAG! The events in Boston -- Last Week – Yes: the deceptive attack under a FALSE FLAG … suggested a shift in our Editorial Focus for This Week – from Port Orford (Oregon), the American cultural center par exellance of the West Coast, to Boston (Massachuseset-es-sestts), it’s cultural counterpart on the East Coast – Birthplace of the Revolutionary …. U.S. Postal Abbreviations!! [ “MA” was FIRST!!! –Ed.] And so the E.F. has been SHIFTED to BOSTON …. MA !!! and to the Boston Harbor – and a series of events that took place there, under a FALSE FLAG!!! But …. Whose?

That explains This Week’s Issue!!! But what of the news in Port Orford? What about Stephanie’s scheduled recitation of E. E. Eberhard’s CHAMPOEG? She was going to deliver that, rote!, at the Grand Re-Opening of the SH&T, LLP Reading Room !!?? On April 1 – to kick-off NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!!! YES!!! But !!! Players!! You will recall, that she wanted factual corroboration on the existence of the STONE IDOL of the Multnomah Tribe!!!! That’s what Last Week’s STONE IDOL Issue was all about – it was my response to Stephanie’s SPECIAL REQUEST !!!

Players: I doubt that Stephanie was able to receive Last Week’s Issue IN TIME for her rote performance – HOWEVER -- PLAYERS!!!! -- Luckily … I did receive “the latest” edition of that vaunted publication, the Langlois Ledger – which follows below, hereinafterwards ! PLAYERS!!! You can “READ ALL ABOUT IT !!!” Right now …

IN THE NEWS ……

PLAYERS – Out of room and out of time!!!

We’ll have to leave the local news and got on with the Current Issue !!! Are you ready? OKAY ….

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING

WHY HAS MIDS. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER BEEN FALSE FLAGGED

as a CIVILIAN and NON-COMBATANT, DESPITE HIS SERVICE ABOARD the U.S. S. HORNET, DURING the WAR of 1812 ?

PLAYERS!! … … … … Players !!!! Take FIVE to shift your frame of reference here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ [You need to be in the right frame of mind.- Ed. ] While that plays, you can read these lines…

The cannons are roaring, The bayonets are gleaming, The banners are soaring, The pennants are streaming, The drums are rattling – The fifes are squeaking … The negroes are battling, Old women are shrieking, Children are crying OKAY….now …

SOMEHOW [ ! ] some way, but I don’t know how, all of Mr. James Fenimore Cooper’s highly trained biographers seem to have missed his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, [Wowee! Is this another S.Y.M.-Zonia™ Scoop?!! --- Ed. ] and thus overlooked his active role in some of the most dramatic naval engagements during the Cruise of the Hornet of 1812-1813, early in the IMPRESSMENTS WAR of 1812! PLAYERS!!! … We already KNOW from Cooper’s numerous biographers, that Cooper had attained to the officer status as early as 1808: it’s a well-known fact that Cooper was a Midshipman in the infantile United States Navy!! A midshipman was referred to commonly as a MIDDY – not to be confused with a midden, though jokes to that effect were sometimes heard… .

FOR MORE, see Harry Hazel’s great story, Fourpe Tap, or the Middy of the MACEDONIAN …[Etc… titled redacted for now – but see below!!!! – Ed.] PLAYERS !!! Mightn’t you think you could find an image like this on Gargle? By Gargling, well …. maybe “Middy of the Macedonian” ?? Find it on Fakebook™ ? Good luck !!

American Heroes are … RESTRICTED CONTENT !!!

Good thing all of you know the story by heart anyway! Remember Fourpe Tap, the Middy of the MACEDONIAN?

Fourpe Tap himself – yes Fourpe Tap, or just “Tap” to his friends -- the well-known fugitive slave, who was claimed to be “owned” by a Southern planter, the pirate slave-trader Mina!! But Tap slipped away while abroad with “Massa Mina” in New York City – and from there Tap made his way to Boston, where – among the BOSTONS -- he joined the NAVY! In BOSTON … in 1812 !

Tap was a BOSTON… Did he meet James Fenimore Cooper in BOSTON?

PLAYERS – the subtitle of Harry Hazel’s dime novella Fourpe Tap: or the Middy of the MACEDONIAN is -- of course -- “BIG DICK KING OF THE NEGROES” in recognition of the major role played by Tap’s good friend, BIG DICK the GIANT NEGRO. He was also a BOSTON!

Indeed, Harry Hazel had opened the history of Big Dick with the best-selling dime novel, BIG DICK, the King of the Negroes, or, Virtue and Vice Contrasted; a Romance of High and Low Life in Boston (Star Spangled Banner, 1846), but fans of BIG DICK wanted more, and so Harry Hazel quickly followed through with the novella under review This Week, Fourpe Tap: Middy of the MACEDONIAN in which is contained the concluding incidents in the life of BIG DICK, King of the Negroes (Star Spangled Banner, 1847)

PLAYERS !! with a subtitle of “BIG DICK” this book should be VERY POPULAR on the internet these days !!!! But Gargle that subtitle at your own risk: as I said, PLAYERS:

Patriotic material is restricted content on Gargle !!

BUT!! You may want to RENEW your subscription to get full details on the real BIG DICK, the GIANT NEGRO -- shown here !!! Where else, but S.Y.M.-Zonia™ !!!!

You readers will no doubt remember WHO won this squaring off!!! Yes – good ol’ Tap himself [For that’s what his friends call him – and we’re all his friends!! – Ed.] Tap was light on his feet and wore down Big Dick !!! What great characters! Remember Beetle Bugg, the Voluble Yankee!??

Big Dick himself, was of course born in Valparaiso, Chile, of noble parentage!!! But after dramatic shifts in fortune, he was sold as a slave and yet escaped onto an American vessel moored in port. He arrived in New York Harbor in June of 1811, where, in view of his great size, he soon landed a job as a stevedore on the wharves: a job which he continued until the U.S. Declaration of War against Great Britain, in June, 1812. At that point Big Dick entered the Naval service and was ordered to BOSTON. With a detachment of New York recruits, he was assigned to the U.S.S. Chesapeake – but, the Chesapeake left Boston harbor in “disadvantageous circumstances” and was shortly capture by H.M.S. Shannon, in one of the greatest battles of the war – Shannon vs. Chesapeake !!! Big Dick was taken prisoner aboard the Shannon, and then with his mates, thrown into prison and held at Dartmoor !!! He became champion of the American inmates at Dartmoor, and after many years and uncountable events in Dartmoor, was eventually dubbed by all his fellow inmates King Dick ! While there, he appeared in productions of the Dartmoor Thespian Company—including in the role of Othello, to a Desdemona played by the Chesapeake’s parson – in drag!!! WOwee!!!! Players!!! Othello again??

Well – King Dick brought other motivations to his portrayal of Othello, and if he ever had tried to strangle “Desdemona” for real, as John Wilkes Booth did, there would have been no more of the parson’s “maw-warm sermonizing” for the American inmates at Dartmoor!! And then …. t the end of the War, when Dartmoor was forced to disgorge her prisoners, Big Dick -- now King Dick -- returned to Boston. How he lived out the rest of his life, is something for another S.Y.M.-Zonia™ -- as is the story of how the death of his friend Fourpe Tap, led shortly to King Dick’s own death. According to Harry Hazel, King Dick’s skeleton -- of Herculean size -- was still held in the basement of the Boston Medical School, in 1847

PLAYERS: If you’ve enjoyed the mere synopsis of Fourpe Tap, and our sketch of the story of Big Dick the Giant Negro, check out other works by Harry Hazel, like the award-winning THE LIGHT DRAGOON: or, Rancheros of the Poisoned Lance – a Tale of the battlefields of MEXICO (Star Spangled Banner , 1848) ….

PLAYERS!!! But what about COOPER ??? What about the FALSE FLAG?

While Fourpe Tap & King Dick can provide us with a glimpse into the life of a Middy, during the War of 1812 -- what about Midshipman Cooper? How can his role in the Naval Battles of 1812 be established??

Maybe the best quickie treatment of Cooper’s early naval career, is William S. Dudley, James Fenimore Cooper’s Ned Myers: A Life Before the Mast (1997). Dudley states, that Cooper began his sea-faring career on board the ship Stirling, Capt. Johnston, of Wiscassett, Maine, on a mercantile voyage to England and the Mediterranean during the years 1806-07. Cooper then joined the U.S. Navy and obtained a midshipman’s warrant in 1808. The Navy first assigned him to the bomb ketch Vesuvius at New York, “From there he was sent northward to assist Lt. Melancthon Woolsey, who was superintending the construction of the brig Oneida at Oswego, N.Y.” Dudley states that Cooper’s last assignment was on board Wasp, Lt. James Lawrence, but Lawrence, he reports, assigned him to recruiting duty on shore.

“Despite their disparity of age and rank, Cooper and Lawrence became close friends, possibly because their sharing a mutual birthplace, Burlington, New Jersey. In May, 1810, Cooper requested a year’s furlough from the Navy for personal reasons. He resigned his commission a year later…”

Or … did he? Whatever the case, it’s clear that even his best biographers seem to lose track of Cooper as Congress declares war on Great Britain. As the rumors of war grow more intense, and as the Declaration of War grows imminent, Mids. Cooper gets a furlough, and then, evidently just as the war breaks out, he … resigns his commission? PLAYERS!!! Something is NOT RIGHT !!! In May, 1810, two years before the Declaration of War , did Cooper really request a furlough “for personal reasons”? Or was that just a FALSE FLAG? In 1811, or 1812, did Cooper in fact resign his naval commission, or was that merely another FALSE FLAG – as he joined the intelligence agency – the “Secret Service”?

Below, we can overhear another biographer ruminating among his pre-suppositions, about Mids. Cooper’s non-participation in the war:

His [Fenimore Cooper’s ] [N]aval [H]istory would express regret that the American navy did not launch concerted preemptive campaign against English vessels patrolling off-shore, the masters of which could not yet have known of the declaration of war. But in 1812 there was a flurry of American activity that Cooper hardly missed (HN 2:148-49).[Strategic ambiguity there … Players: “hardly” can be read TWO WAYS !!!!! – Ed.]

[Wayne Franklin continues: -- Ed]

If he was in New York City nearly enough, he may have crossed paths with James Lawrence, now in command of the Hornet, part of a squadron then forming under Commodore Rogers (see ECE7). A midshipman in Lawrence’s vessel recorded in his pocket diary what took place on June 21, when the Hornet and the President left the harbor. Once the declaration of war was read on board and the vessels were under way [sic], “Capt. Lawrence had the crew called to their quarters, and told them if there were any amongst them who were disaffected or … had not rather sink than surrender to the enemy, with gun for gun that he should be immediately and uninjured landed and sent back in the pilot boat.” Such a procedure was not uncommon at a time when British tars, and those of other nations as well, were serving aboard American naval vessels. It also was not unheard of for men to take their captain up on such offers. In the case of the Hornet, however, the diarist added that “the reply was[,] [ NOTE: PLAYERS: this important comma was added by the iographer, Wayne Franklin! I could use an Editor like that here in S.Y.M.-Zonia™ ! – Ed.] fore and aft ‘Not one.”’ Even if Cooper did not see or know of such noble gestures, he surely sent his heart after the vessels as Rodgers and his “squadron passed Sandy Hook on the afternoon of the 21st of June, and ran off south-east” – language in the naval history that may suggest the eye of the spectator left behind on the bay (HN 2:150).”

“Even if …” ?? “May suggest… ” ??? Carefully chosen words !!! from Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, The Early Years, p. 163 (2007). And author Franklin speculates that Cooper, “may have crossed paths with James Lawrence, now in command of the Hornet, part of a squadron then forming…” Remember, Players; the two were close friends!!!! BUT … !!!!!

PLAYERS !!! As we shall see below, Midshipman Cooper was SERVING on the U.S.S. Hornet, Capt. Lawrence, deployed out of BOSTON, Oct, 1812 – and so there should be no unnecessary energy expended on speculation on that count! Indeed, a more appropriate object of speculation I posed as This Week’s S.Y.M.-Zonia™ … to wit:

WHY HAS MIDS. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER BEEN FALSE FLAGGED as a CIVILIAN and NON-COMBATANT, DESPITE HIS SERVICE ABOARD

the U.S. S. HORNET, DURING the WAR of 1812 ?

PLAYERS!! Not everything in the historical record can be accepted at face value – including conventional conclusions as to the role of James Fenimore Cooper as merely a pudding-faced land-lubber, who watched the War from some window- seat in his town-house, overlooking the blockaded Boston or New York harbor!!! As we shall see, Fenimore Cooper FALSE FLAGGED himself as – and has been accepted by historians as -- a non-threatening, plain-clothes civilian and non-combatant -- when IN FACT nothing could be further from the truth!!! And …. PLAYERS:

If Cooper could work under a FALSE FLAG, could his vessel, the U.S.S. Hornet in distress be a FALSE FLAG?

There was, of course, the need for total secrecy in operations, during a period of declared and “hot” warfare: Loose Lips Sink Ships, the saying goes. But, in an offensive war like the War of 1812, it was necessary that there be secrecy in ADVANCE PREPARATIONS. In other words, there had to be secrecy, dissimulation & disguise, during the period of undeclared wars between the young U.S., and the European powers: both during the Quasi-War with France, but also during the dangerous decade of British impressments intervening -- 1800-1812: complete secrecy, until the formal Declaration of War against Great Britain was signed by President Madison on June 18, 1812. Diplomatic secrecy was paramount…. Shipping secrecy was paramount …. Operations secrecy was paramount… Where were all these operations of deception co-ordinated? By whom? And who implemented these necessary measures of deception?

Such preparations had to be coordinated not just at level high-up within the U.S. Navy, but approved high-up within the Executive, so as to coordinate them with other government operations, and often with merchant shipping, by an agency we can refer to, by default, as the “ Secret Service.” Cooper himself, in launching his discussion of the Cruise of the U.S.S. Hornet, Chapter XXIX, p. 269 of the History of the Navy of the United States, in one sentence affirms at least three levels of “Secret Service”-style intelligence operations, in discussing the Cruise of the Hornet. Coop sez:

The Constitution and Hornet sailed from Boston on the 26th of October [1812]. Touching at the different rendezvous, [1] where they appeared in the guise of British vessels of war, letters were left for Captain Porter, [2] under the assumed name of Sir James Yeo, of the Southampton, 32[-guns], [3] according to arrangements, and the ships proceeded.

PLAYERS: Thus, we see that the FALSE FLAG is just one component of a deceptive war-time operation, in the War of 1812! The term “FALSE FLAG” – which derives from naval operations like this one, is merely a … metonymy, or synecdoche for a stratagem of more complete deception, that has to be integrated at a number of levels, to be effective as a deception. Thus, Cooper notes … the [1] disguise of vessels under false flags, with other necessary elements to complete a disguise: e.g., their names painted over; [2] the disguise of individuals and officers under false identities, with false papers, etc.; and [3] the circulation of pre-determined intelligence programs, as rudimentary elements of FALSE FLAG operations, as the carefully laid plans for the War for the Freedom of the Seas, were put into execution…

Those are the merest rudiments… What else has been disguised??? What else is working under a FALSE FLAG?

James Fenimore Cooper’s own role in the FALSE FLAG operations, through the Secret Service, during the War of 1812, seems to have been has been pretty carefully “cloaked” – even up to the present!!! Even 200 years later it remains to be .. “DECLASSSIFIED”!

Wayne Franklin’s carefully selected words, in the quotation above, suggest he was tip-toeing around a fact he knew very well…. And, whether that is true or not, it should not be any surprise, really, that Mids. Cooper served in the War of 1812, for how could he, really, as a trained naval officer, escape his duty: either as a matter of maintaining any social standing within his circle, or of honoring his conscience? For men of all classes were volunteering for service up and down the Atlantic seaboard – not just within the Navy, but as Privateers, commissioned directly by the White House! As for Cooper, as I said, he was already a Middy – already a boon companion of Capt. James Lawrence – so how could he resist the call of a comrade-in-arms? And it would hardly be a surprise that he would serve under his well-beloved comrade, his commanding officer of the Wasp, Capt. James Lawrence – now commanding the Hornet, departing from BOSTON on October 26, 1812. As he did…

Let’s look at “Pop” Emmons’ verse epic FREDONIAD, CANTO VI, The Cruise of the Hornet -- PLAYERS: remember, as the scene opens, in October of 1812, a squadron of British war-ships, under direction of the Admiralty, has blockaded Boston harbor and is suffocating trade in essential goods, while continuing to abduct and impress American seamen!!!! Meanwhile, a tiny American squadron under the command of Commodore Bainbridge, has so far been unable to slip through the blockade!!!!

On Boston’s moonlit bay the Hornet rides, Turning obsequious to the changing tides, Laden with life and all the means of death, Ready to spread her wings on heaven’s sweet breath. At York had Lawrence left his bride behind, To trust his fortune to the waves and wind. Two happy infants smil’d upon her heart – The care of whom relieved a bitter part, Of Lawrence, absent on the wide waste sea, Expos’d to tempest and the enemy; Yet would a truant tear-drop stroll, Down her fair cheek, expressive of her soul.

These names to Lawrence bear inferior rule, Bred to the naval art in Truxton’s school; Getz, Shubrick, Newton, filled with valour’s breath, To war unyielding on the tide of death; Smoot, Cooper, Beorum, Mayo, Conner – train’d, To wipe away the blot by Albion stain’d – Impressement ! – outrage, madness to the brain -- The hardest link in slavery’s cramping chain !

There’s “Cooper”!!! But – which Cooper? For, that’s a much more common name than, say “Smoot” or “Beorum” or “Mayo”!!! PLAYERS!!! How can we possible be sure that this is the James Fenimore? And not, instead, and as historians have universally concluded, any one of a large handful of other “Coopers” enlisted at the time??

Well, as we all know, the story continues: once the moon sets on Boston harbor, a breeze springs up, and the Hornet, Capt. Lawrence, weighs anchor and – urged by an unquenchable thirst for freedom -- slips out of Boston harbor, evading the British blockade, and reaching the open ocean in safety. From there, the Hornet initiates it’s famous Cruise, beginning with a turnabout blockade of the H.M.S. Bonne Citoyenne. Emmons sez:

Still Lawrence inward burnt to test his power, And cause the Eagle in the flames to tower, Or let her sink with her defenders dead, And thus to Cooper his intentions said – [Turn the page for an exciting revelation!!! – Ed.]

(Cooper whose mind the scenes of fiction drew, There it is …. So just, that nature own’d the pencil true.)

“ Brave son of Ocean!! Prompt with banner go, And bear my message to the harbor’d foe, Invite him ship to ship in dubious fray … [The Fredoniad is available now on Gargle Book!! – Ed.]

PLAYERS: There you have it: incontrovertible identification that the Hornet’s Midshipman Cooper, is none other than Our Hero, the supposedly bench-warming, civilian auteur of great American novels!! Naturally -- armchair academic critics will recoil!!!! As if struck by a rattlesnake! Sputtering:

“What? It cannot be so! This is but ONE SOURCE, and, furthermore, it is creaky, lame POETRY! Goldengate, thou varlet!! This alone establishes it as base FALSEHOOD!!” Ah, True enough! I answer!! But PLAYERS:

Publishing his Naval History in 1839, and then revising his text for a new edition in 1846, and so forth, it also may not be any surprise that, in his history of the Navy, Cooper never referenced himself in the first person, anymore than it should be a surprise, that he cleverly FALSE-FLAGGED himself as “Midshipman B. Cooper” – perhaps a reflexive “cloaking” out of modesty, or – just as likely – writing, still under a pre-arranged directive to raise a FALSE FLAG!!

In the Naval History, in his account of the famous engagement of the Hornet vs. H.M.S. Peacock, Cooper recounts the cannonade, and the surrender of the Peacock, and her imminent sinking. Cooper then casually tosses off a reference to a particular “Midshipman B. Cooper” who, along with others, risked their lives to rescue the prisoners still held below decks, as, after her surrender, the H.M.S. Peacock swiftly -- in less than five minutes -- sinks beneath the waves! Although the false initial “B.” might discourage lesser sleuths!!! yet, here in S.Y.M.-Zonia™ !!!! it’s clear Cooper’s account of this engagement, is written from an eyewitness involvement in the events, in the “B.” is just a … brilliant disguise!!! It’s genius !!! Players; what do you think? Could “B.” Cooper … “Be Cooper” ??? Get it??? Cooper’s account covers the events in great detail … and at length. PLAYERS!!! Let’s look:

Mr. J. T. Shubrick [from the U.S.S. Hornet] was sent on board to take possession. This officer soon returned with the information that the prize was the enemy’s sloop of war Peacock, 18[-guns]. Capt. Peake, and that she was fast sinking, having already six feet of water in the hold. Mr. Conner, the third Lieutenant of the Hornet, and Mr. B. Cooper, one of her midshipmen, were immediately dispatched with boats, to get out the wounded, and to endeavor to save the vessel. It was too late for the latter, though every exertion was made. Both vessels were immediately anchored. Guns were thrown overboard, shot-holes plugged, and recourse was had to the pumps, and even to bailing; but the short twilight of the prize crew before the prisoners could be removed. In the hurry and confusion of such a scene, and while the boats of the Hornet were absent, four of the Englishmen lowered the stern boat of the Peacock, which had been thought to injured to be used, jumped into it, and pulled for the land, at the imminent risk of their lives.

Mt. Conner became sensible t5hat the brig was in momentary danger of sinking, and he endeavoured [Sic!! – at this stage, the word still shows its French lineage -- Ed.] to collect the people remaining on board, in the Peacock’s launch, which still stood on deck, the fall of the main-mast, and the want of time, having prevented an attempt to get it into the water. Unfortunately, a good many of the Peacock’s people were below, rummaging the vessel, and when the brig gave her last wallow it was too late to save them.

The Peacock settled very easily but suddenly, in five and a half fathoms water, and the two American officers, [Lt. Conner and Mids. Cooper – Ed. ] with most of the men, and several prisoners, saved themselves in the launch , though not without great exertions. Three of the Hornet’s people went down in the brig, and nine of the Peacock’s were also drowned. Four more of the latter saved themselves by running up the rigging intot he foretop, which remained out of the water, after the hull had got to the bottom. The launch had no oars, and it was paddled by pieces of wood towards the Hornet, when it was met by one of the cutter’s of that ship, which was returning to the brig. The cutter immediately pulled towards the Peacock’s fore-mast, in the hope of finding someone swimming; but with the exception of those in the top, no person was saved.

In this short encounter, the peacock had her captain and four men killed, and thirty-three wounded. The Hornet had one man killed, and two wounded, in addition to two men badly burned by the explosion of a cartridge. She suffered a good deal aloft, had one shot through the foremast, and the bowsprit was hit.

PLAYERS!!!! And that’s only the beginning!!! Note a certain sense of authorial involvement in the details of the Hornet vs. Peacock account, in Cooper’s text:

The Peacock was a vessel of the Hornet’s size, being a little shorter, but having more beam. Her proper armament was thirty-tows, but, for some reason that is not known, it had been changed for lighter guns, and in the action she mounted 16 twenty-four pound carronades . 21 light long guns, a twelve pound carronade on her topgallant forecastle, and another light long gun aft. By her quarter-bill, she had 130 men on board, at the time she was taken. This force rendered her inferior to the Hornet, which ship mounted 18 thirty-two pound carronades and two long twelves. The Hornet in the action mustered 135 men fit for duty.

And here: the following analysis, based on observation of a plank on the Hornet, dented by one of the Peacock’s cannonballs can only come from one who was an eyewitness to the engagement:

Notwithstanding the superiority of the Hornet, the same disparity between the execution and the difference in force, is to be seen in this action, as in those already mentioned. In allowing the Hornet to get the weather-gage, the Peacock was out-manoeuvered [Sic – Ed.]; but, with this exception, she is understood to have been well managed, though her gunnery was defective. The only shot that touched the hull of the Hornet, was one fired as the later ship was falling off, in waring [Sic: looks like an old spelling for “wearing” – Ed.] ; it merely glanced athwart her bows, indenting a plank beneath the cathead. As this shot must have been fired from the starboard gun of the Peacock, the fact demonstrates how well she was handled ; and that, in waring, her commander had rightly estimated and judiciously used the peculiar powers of a brig, though the quick movements of his antagonist deprived him of the result he had expected, and immediately gave the Hornet a decided advantage in position. It would be caviling to deny that this short combat was decided by the superior gunnery and rapid handling of the Hornet.

That highly technical maritime, ballistic, forensic analysis of an otherwise unimportant dent on “a plank beneath the cathead” is used by Cooper to refute the routine British assertions, raised repeatedly in the British historiography of the War of 1812, that U.S. naval victories were generally just fortuitous – dumb luck -- and did not represent superior capability, more cunning tactics, and brilliant seamanship. It’s plain that, in order to make this analysis, Cooper must have been present on the U.S.S. Hornet during the battle of Hornet vs. Peacock – to understand the dent later, in view of events to which he had been a participant and eyewitness. He served throughout the Cruise of the U.S.S. Hornet – and afterwards. But he has been FALSE FLAGGED! as simple “B.” Cooper!! In fact, he was, beneath the disguise … .

James Fenimore Cooper

MIDDY OF THE HORNET

NAVAL WAR HERO -- 1812

And with that, the Hornet, largely undamaged, but with over 130 prisoners from the Peacock, headed for home.

Players: I’d quote a few paragraphs more from the FREDONIAD, but I’m already Running Long!! And at risk of breaking the Rule of the GEORGETOWN NEWS!! Indeed; I fear now for the future of the Langlois Ledger, after seeing the latest issue, which seems almost totally given over to matters poetical in nature …

PLAYERS!!! That’s all I have for This Week!! For more …on FALSE FLAGS, you might want to check out the latest issue of “American History” – a perfect example, I’d say!!! On newsstands now!! The title of the feature article, “What No One Is Telling You about the War of 1812” is in the present tense… as in, “We’re Still Not Telling You …” And this confirmed by the content of the article – which tells you -- in fact -- absolutely “NOTHING” about the War of 1812 !!! Wowee!!! Players !!! Check it out … Is there even one word about roving PRESS GANGS? About maritime IMPRESSMENTS? Anything about the NORE or SPITHEAD? Anything at all about British PRISON SHIPS … the HULKS …? Anything at all about … about ….. James Fenimore Cooper onboard the U.S.S. Hornet? Or anything about

The lead article tells you nothing about the IMPRESSMENTS WAR of 1812 -- Instead, it advises the reader, that the War was over the Flag…!!! It ….. gave Americans the flag, as something to fight for .. “Americans got a chance to articulate what love of country meant to them.” According to the FALSE FLAG of “American History” the victories in the War of 1812 were nothing more than “easy emotional victories… ” Players! Always watch out for FALSE FLAGS Even if they claim to be “American” and display American colors…

NOW!! I’ve got no idea what I’m running for Next Week!! As you saw with the current issue of S.Y.M.-Zonia™ EVENTS MAY CONTROL OUR CONTENT!!

PLAYERS: Just … just stay safe …

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