Those M&D words: Forks of Brandywin

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 13:04:52 CDT 2007


fwiw...famous battle fought there during the Revolutionary War

rich


On 6/14/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it a town, a village? Google gives only the eponymic Presbyterian
> Church.
> Why 'forks', because of a bifurcating river or road ?
>
> 'Whilst they rode whooping and shooting upon Philadel­phia, the Surveyors
> were out in the Forks of Brandywine, well south of the Invasion Route,
> with
> a new observatory up, and the Stars nimbly hopping the Wires for them, as
> they gaz'd from someplace here upon Earth's Surface, ... '
>
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