Who am I?

Nick22 · **Reply #140 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:07:40 PM

Hint please

Malte279 · **Reply #141 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:29:34 PM

This man was involved in two revolutions. One in his home country and one on the other side of the Atlantic.

Nick22 · **Reply #142 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:34:37 PM

Laussaint L'Overture?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #143 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:42:40 PM

Nope. For all I know he only led what may be called a Revolution in Haiti. However, the person we are looking for has also a French name. The Revolutions he was involved in were really BIG ones.

Nick22 · **Reply #144 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:49:11 PM

Marquis De Laffeytte
NicK

Malte279 · **Reply #145 on:** March 07, 2005, 06:54:51 PM

That's the man I'm talking of. And to "cut a short story long" his full name is: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette.
Marquis de Lafayette is actually only his title. Your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #146 on:** March 07, 2005, 07:10:35 PM

Many Americans wouldn't know him period, Let alone his full name. What was Aaron Burr planning to do which caused him to be tried for treason?

Malte279 · **Reply #147 on:** March 09, 2005, 08:24:22 AM

Aaron Burr was charged with a conspiracy. I think the true aim of that conspiracy has never been determined with absolute certainty. However at its grandest, the plan may have been for Burr to make a massive new nation in the west, forged from conquered provinces of Mexico and the states west of the Appalachian Mountains. Burr was to have been the leader of this Southwestern republic.
Quite ambitous if you ask me.
I wonder sometimes how the world would look today if indeed such a state had been founded, or if the United States had broken appart on other ocassions (Civil War) or if Texas had never joined the US. There is much room for speculations.

Nick22 · **Reply #148 on:** March 09, 2005, 10:24:04 AM

Well Burr planned to seperate New England from the Union and connect it with western territory. But he was only able to raise 60 followers who were willing to support his plan. Given that Burr was Vice-president, that is stunning. Burr was a very chrismatic man, and a good politician.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #149 on:** March 15, 2005, 08:59:00 AM

So was the answer close enough?

Nick22 · **Reply #150 on:** March 15, 2005, 10:35:23 AM

Yes it was. your turn Malte

Malte279 · **Reply #151 on:** March 15, 2005, 04:07:08 PM

"Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumpque tyrannis"
(He stole the lightning from the sky and the scepter of the tyrant)
Who was he?

Nick22 · **Reply #152 on:** March 15, 2005, 04:08:00 PM

Benjamin Franklin, with the invention of the lightning Rod

Malte279 · **Reply #153 on:** March 15, 2005, 04:14:03 PM

Indeed. Maybe I ought not to have given the translation of the Latin praise of him to make it a little harder. But on the other hand it would have been rather stupid in a language even I can hardly understan after years of Latin lessons.

Nick22 · **Reply #154 on:** March 15, 2005, 06:44:55 PM

I Never took Latin Myself, But I've picked up some words and phrases.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #155 on:** March 16, 2005, 05:16:05 AM

Some words are easy to pick up as they originate from latin (or greece) terms. Tyrannis is just one example.
Anyway, your turn Nick.

Nick22 · **Reply #156 on:** March 17, 2005, 11:18:23 AM

This man helped feed the Pilgrims in their first winter here.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #157 on:** March 17, 2005, 06:50:20 PM

Two native Americans come to my mind. Squanto, who showed the settlers how to plant corn and catch fish and above all served as a translator.
The other one would be Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag who welcomed the settlesrs and helped them out with food supplies in the first winter. The invitation of Massasoit and 90 of his men through the pilgrims after their first harvest is said to be the foundation stone of the Thanksgiving.

Nick22 · **Reply #158 on:** March 17, 2005, 08:30:38 PM

Squanto was the one i was looking for. Your turn Malte

Malte279 · **Reply #159 on:** March 18, 2005, 04:49:49 AM

My voice appeased even death and the wild beasts. Oh if only I had not looked back over my shoulder for my loved one she would have left the shade of death again. Whom am I and who is my beloved wife?