Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF TOPIC, "Americans"
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:59:49 -0500

At 01:59 PM 9/30/99 -0400, Lee, Jonathan wrote:
>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.

Yep, if anyone visits Niagara Falls, they should definitely look up the 
memorial to that victory.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million 
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