On February 10th, 1676, in King Philip’s War: A force of 1,500 Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Indians killed more than 30 men and destroyed buildings in Lancaster, Massachusetts. King Philip’s War, sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom’s War, Pometacomet’s Rebellion, or Metacom’s Rebellion, was fought from 1675 to 1678. Even the leftist/apologist Wikipedia concedes [1]: “King Philip’s War was the last-ditch effort by Native tribes to expel the colonists from New England. Instead, it turned out to be the beginning of the development of an independent American identity. The New England colonists faced their enemies without support from any European government or military, and this began to give them a group identity separate and distinct from England.”
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February 10, 1918: [2] In Finland, General Carl Gustaf Emil Von Mannerheim began to gather an army known as the ‘White Guard’ to mount a counter-revolution against the Bolshevik ‘Red Guard’.
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And on February 10, 1943, members of the Van der Veen Resistance group started a fire in the Amsterdam Employment Bureau. This arson was aimed at destroying records to disrupt Germany’s drafting of Dutch workers to be forced to work at factories in Germany.
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A gent that I know personally has decided to sell most of his stack of Rawles XL Voyager knives [3]. Since these are now fetching $220+ each in auctions, his set price of $150 postage paid is a relative bargain. I can vouch that the knives from this particular seller are genuine. (The majority that you see on eBay from other sellers are shoddy Mainland China fakes.) Also note that I gave him permission to re-use the photos from Pat Cascio’s review of the knife design that was published in SurvivalBlog.
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Today’s feature piece is a review written by SurvivalBlog staffer Tom Christianson.
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We need more entries for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [4]. More than $981,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 123 ends on March 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [5] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [6]. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.