Re-watched "Free State of Jones" and it occurred to me that Knight might be considered a forerunner to some of us? Apologies if this has been discussed previously.
For those who don’t know, during the American Civil War, Jones County, Mississippi seceded from the Confederacy around 1863, under an army of Confederate deserters led by a man named Newton Knight. Perhaps we don’t need something that drastic in the game, but we could maybe have a character as a minor vassal. We have Captain Jack the Savvy, I don’t see why not have one little count or adventurer.
Joseph G. Newton
Black Knight
Everyone is in-character.
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Both sides are given 30 minutes of prep, along with all kinds of information about their opponent.
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Black Knight has absorbed a Meta Nanite.
Let the battle begin!
In the movie The Da Vinci code, the pass code for Leonardo’s Cryptex was “APPLE”. Did Leonardo himself set that pass code? Or was it set later by defendants of the Templar knights? If Leonardo did it himself, then how did he choose APPLE, considering the story of newton and apple took place centuries after Leonardo’s time?
[The following is in regards to Newton Knight, a Confederate deserter in the American Civil War who returned to Jones County in Mississippi and fought a guerrilla war against the Confederacy.]
>As Tom Knight tells the story, Newton had just attended Sunday services near his home with Tom and one of his younger brothers when some local toughs accosted them. Tom doesn’t say whether the “younger brother” in question was white or black [Newton Knight had many children with both his white wife and a former slave named Rachel], but given that the incident took place late in Newton’s life, it almost certainly concerned a mixed-race son. One of the toughs had a dispute with the young Knight boy over some hogs. As the knights left church, the antagonist approached the boy and feigned friendliness, saying to him, “I want to talk with you a minute.” He walked the boy to a corner of the churchyard, where he began to curse him and then struck him from behind with a pine limb.
>With that, the rest of the Knights charged across the yard. A melee ensued, as men windmilled their fists at one another and rolled on the ground. As they churned in the dust, the attacker lashed out with a boot and caught Newton squarely in the shin, peeling off some of his skin.
>Newton didn’t utter a cry. Instead he reacted silently. There was a glitter of metal and an almost imperceptible wave of his hand, and an instant later the man was gurgling from his throat and covered in his own blood. Newton sheathed his knife, the fight over. Newton said, “He would learn him that it was Newt Knight he was kicking.”
>Newton had slashed the man’s throat – if he’d have cut an eighth of an inch deeper, the man would have been dead. As it was, he wounded the victim so badly a doctor had to be summoned to stop the bleeding, and the man would be in bed or a month.
>”So my father said it looked to him like it was a free for all fight and he was old and had been crippled up and he just did not feel like being kicked about by anyone and especially by a big young man,” Tom Knight related.
Source:
Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “The Family Tree.” The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy. Anchor Books, 2010. 301-2. Print.
Further Reading:
[Newton Knight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton
... keep reading on reddit ➡[The following is in regards to Newton Knight, a Confederate deserter in the American Civil War who returned to Jones County in Mississippi and fought a guerrilla war against the Confederacy.]
>Had the Confederate guard known what was in the gun, he’d have been more cooperative. Newton packed each of his barrels with double loads of lead balls, heavy charged with powder behind them. There were thirty-six pieces of shot in Newton’s gun – it was his way of evening the odds against the entire Confederate army. All of his men had learned to pack their guns the same way, using any kind of lead they could find; Minié balls, rifle bullets, or homemade scraps they melted down. Once, they hauled one of their victims to a doctor with eleven wounds. The surgeon said to them, “You must be right smart shooters to hit one man 11 times with rifle bullets.”
Source:
Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “The Third Front.” The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy. Anchor Books, 2010. 176-77. Print.
Further Reading:
[The following is in regards to Newton Knight, a Confederate deserter in the American Civil War who returned to Jones County in Mississippi and fought a guerrilla war against the Confederacy.]
>”Here they come!” Newton said. From out of the brush came a heard of colts, riderless. For a moment Newton was relieved – until the dashing of horses was followed closely by the rippling cracks of gunfire. About twenty Confederates had ridden behind the stampeding horses, using them as cover.
>As Newton, Alpheus, and the women reached the tree line, Newton handed the baby to its mother and plunged into the brush. While the women pushed deeper into the woods, Newton and Alpheus swung around and kneeled to face the Confederates from the cover of the trees. The two men raised their weapons, and Newton cautioned Alpheus to fire only one barrel at a time. Then he drew aim on a captain riding straight for them.
>”Lord God, direct this load,” Newton said.
>The blast kicked the gunstock into Newton’s shoulder, and a fraction of a second later the rebel officer rumbled from his saddle. A moment later, Alpheus let go with one barrel, and another rebel flew from his mount. Alternating barrels, Newton and Alpheus dropped four men and a large gray horse before the Confederates reined to a halt.
>Newton began to yell military orders from out of the timber. “Attention! Battalion! Rally on the right! Forward!”
>The ears of the cavalrymen still rang from a half-dozen shotgun blasts. As they gazed at the thickets and heard Newton shouting orders it must have seemed that they had encountered an entire company. With four men bleeding on the ground, they were not inclined to press the attack against an unknown number in the woods. They turned their horses and galloped away.
Source:
Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Banners Raised and Lowered.” The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy. Anchor Books, 2010. 226. Print.
Further Reading:
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