What is your problem with Pulaski? Yes, she, he, whatever, does it really matter, is the father, mother, whatever, of the cavalry. Pulaski turned what was once just a recon unit, into an offensive unit on the battlefield. And that was not something new, more like something forgotten in European warfare. Pulaski brought it back.
And sure, I am describing little anecdotes, but they are far from isolated, and they are absolutely critical to the founding of this nation. And you are just purposely blinding yourself to the diversity that built this nation. From the very beginning, we were far more diverse than you can imagine. 1620, Plymouth, as if that is the first. Damn, they showed up and were greeted by a Native American that spoke fluent English and had been entertained by the royalty of France and England.
No, well before the Pilgrims arrived there were Muslim communities in the Appalachians. Escaped slaves, from ship wrecks, found their way west. The first white person to venture west of the Catawba river, Swiss. Yeah, from Switzerland. In the 16th century this place was wide open. Juan Pardo, yes, he left soldiers behind, from Spain, they were living here decades before the Pilgrims.
And this whole assimilation thing, what a crock of shit. You think all those colonists came here to assimilate? **** no, they came because they had the space, and the freedom, to do their own thing. Almost to the group, they came to establish their own community here, not to "assimilate". I mean damn, around here, schools and churches operated in German, not English, until well after the Civil War. In many cases, that was third generation Americans going to that German speaking church.
