tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5992054583405726226..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Cherubum and Seraphim at Old North ChurchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-51431479260059970512016-05-04T14:44:00.311-05:002016-05-04T14:44:00.311-05:00I recently saw another example of an American priv...I recently saw another example of an American privateer named after a distant ally in a worldwide war. Perhaps a way of giving more legitimacy to their attacks on enemy merchant ships? J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-46261328988635105332016-05-04T13:46:47.058-05:002016-05-04T13:46:47.058-05:00Talk about poetic justice--the privateer vessel wh...Talk about poetic justice--the privateer vessel which captured the carved figures now in Old North bore the contemporary moniker for Austro-Hungarian Empress-Queen Maria Theresa--"The Queen of Hungary"--whose contested right to rule was the basis of "King George's" or the Austrian Succession War."<br /><br />(Our common enemy at the time, the French, were part of the coalition trying to unseat her.)Don Carleton (Jr.)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02995856884718068236noreply@blogger.com