Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All of this stuff below is unimportant. In the end, just like they did to us later in the South, The Yankees kicked ass. - -----Original Message----- From: Lee, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:00 PM To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF TOPIC, "Americans" Marc James Small wrote, The British are under the strange misapprehension that the assault on Washington (successful) and that on Baltimore (unsuccessful) were their operations. They have some reason on their side: I don't recall any Canadian military units in the British OB, and the entire command was British, and the operation was directed by London. In any event, it took place in 1814, not '12. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, pooh pooh the British. You are right of course. But Canadian miltiamen did fight succesfully and courageously against numerically superior American forces in land battles in Ontario (then Upper Canada) during the War of 1812. Jonathan Lee