Talk:David Bushnell

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 * *Richard Bushnell, the model, webmaster and political commentator is a tracable decendant of David Bushnell

is not suitable. If it talks abt David Bushnell, say that & cut the veneration-by-ancestry crap. --Jerzy•t 06:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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should have more details for people to read and for students to use when doing projects.

Age
I have read that David was several different ages when he finished college whats really right?Kangaroo2 (talk) 14:55, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

"Family member"
The end of this sentence is awkward and vague:

"The Turtle eventually sank when it was trying to retreat from British observation, yet a Bushnell family member as sole commander, bailed out and survived."

Hopefully someone can identify the "Bushnell family member." And it seems meaningless to refer to the "sole commander" of a submersible that was intended to carry one person. 850 C (talk) 15:15, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

timing of promotion
The article says that Bushnell was given command of the Corps of Sappers and Miners on August 2, 1779, then it says he was captured on May 6 of that same year. This seems impossible. Was he perhaps given command in 1778? Could someone verify and correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.204.149.16 (talk) 21:49, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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The art of goin for 40.
well you see one doesn't simply just wake up and go for 40 like David Bushnell. Its an art form you cant learn it in a day or even a week the art of going for 40 is extremely complex in and of itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.237.127.23 (talk) 16:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism present, unsure how to revert
The article states that Bushnell went by the pseudonym David Bush boi, which seems clearly vandalized (I already removed one instance of someone saying the Turtle was a duck?) but I don't know what his actual pseudonym might have been. KiraLiz1 &#124; she/her 19:16, 15 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Bushell went to Warrentown, Georgia, where he lived under the psudonam David Bush.
 * Jefferson, Thomas. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. (Princeton University Press, 2011), 513.
 * It should be reverted and the citation added. Harrycroswell (talk) 20:45, 15 May 2023 (UTC)