Welcome to the United States, here is your rifle
by jackt-up
Welcome to the United States, here is your rifle
by jackt-up
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Don’t ask the Brits where some of their best soldiers came from.
“Then raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere
We’ll fight and fall beneath the folds like Irish volunteers.”
Sheamus!!!
I’ve done civil war reenactments and have fought with the 69th New York regiment. Cool experience
Just don’t ask who the Irish sided with in the US’s [previous war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion).
With pale affright and panic flight
Shall dastard Yankees base and hollow,
Hear a Celtic race, from their battle place,
Charge to the shout of “Faugh-a-ballaugh!”
By the sould above, by the land we love
Her tears bleeding patience
The sledge is wrought that shall smash to naught
The brazen liar of nations.
The Irish green shall again be seen
As our Irish fathers bore it,
A burning wind from the South behind,
And the Yankee rout before it!
Not all the Irish were lincolnites…
This meme is funny because the Irish population was a hotbed for anti-war sentiments, with New York being an epicenter for resistance against the draft and recruitment
Just don’t draft them & tell them it’s to free African slaves else they’ll start killing any Africans they can find nearby
Well, meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o’er, with our fortunes to be made, so we were thinkin’
When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands
Saying “Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln.”
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin’ cannons roar, and I wish I was back home in dear old Dublin
However mixed results found when fighting Mexicans.
The anti-draft riots in New York totally not happened
Cue cheesy Randy Edelman score and slow motion shots of tearful Irish immigrants gunning down their countrymen.
Fun fact: The confederates did not like Germans, because many German immigrants served with the Union
Unfortunately this card’s affects can be easily undone if the opponent plays “potato famine”, which causes all Irish cards to immigrate to the discard pile.
I remember seeing Tipperary Hill for the first time and when my dad explained the traffic light story I instantly got a green nosebleed because I couldn’t handle how cool my ancestors were
Immigrants have always made America better.
Card is powerful but situational at best probably a side deck choice only.
Same goes for germans
Just don’t send them to fight Mexicans.
“That document makes you a citizen, and this one makes you a private in the Union army. Now get out there and serve your country.”
*Pan over to soldiers boarding a ship while coffins are being offloaded*
Oh, hey, I see my ancestor in the ranks. (German, I’m not sure if the intent was to immigrate, family story goes he just procrastinated on going back to Germany until he had a wife, kid, and many acres of land)