Campaign to Nowhere

Interesting day in history today. Verrrrry interesting. Follow me...

In 1297, William Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.
In 1609, Henry Hudson began the colonization of the island of Manhattan.
In 1857, 120 men, women and children –all settlers-- were massacred by Mormons at Mountain Meadows, Utah. The Mormons, led by Brigham Young’s adopted son John Doyle Lee, were under the impression that these families represented an impending invasion by the U.S. Army. He offered them safe passage if they would leave their horses, wagons and weapons, and then killed all but seventeen children under the age of seven.
In 1941, ground was broken on the new Pentagon office building.
In 1973, democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende shot himself after CIA-aided troops of Augusto Pinochet surrounded his fortress of La Moneda in Santiago,
Chile.
In 1990, George H. W. Bush first intoned the phrase "New World Order."