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Resolved Question

Next year is 200th anniversary of what?

Nov 23, 2011 2:43PM PST

And hopefully the last time it will occur.

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(NT) I bet it has to do with The War of 1812
Nov 23, 2011 7:21PM PST
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Yes!
Nov 23, 2011 8:49PM PST

It was the year Canadians came down and torched the White House. We so appreciated it we followed them back up to Canada and torched their Parliament buildings in return. The British were behind it all, but they took off and we didn't feel like chasing them all the way to Britain to torch something there, so settled on a few ships as being sufficient retaliation. Thomas Jefferson thought about annexing Canada after that stunt, but others figured it wasn't really worth it. Wink

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RE: others figured it wasn't really worth it.
Nov 23, 2011 10:00PM PST
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Can you get James for TOS violation?
Nov 29, 2011 8:20AM PST

Disrespect of a national entity or some such? Happy

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Ahh but!
Nov 24, 2011 4:24AM PST

Did you know the US Navy did, in fact, invade England? Happy

It was around that time and one ship I think landed at an English port.

I saw a TV program about it a few years ago. The US Navy send a ship of the fleet to the same port every year to commemorate it.


The trouble is I might be imagining this because I can find no reference to it now.

Anyone else know about it?

Mark

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British burn Washington.
Nov 24, 2011 5:20AM PST

April 27, 1813: U.S. troops attack and burn York, (Capital of Upper Canada).
August 24, 1814: British burn Washington.

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That's a different timeline than James has.
Nov 24, 2011 5:56AM PST

he started out writing headlines, now he's REwriting history?

I'll be the first to admit I wasn't there...BUT

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War of 1812: A Timeline
Nov 24, 2011 8:05AM PST
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I had to chuckle at one entry
Nov 24, 2011 9:20PM PST

Under the "Military Events in Europe" column.

1812 July 21 to August 1: Battles of the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain ending in British success.

France and Spain go to war, Britain wins! Happy

Details are missing though and the battle was more complicated than that short entry suggests. France attacked to relieve a French garrison, but was repelled by a combined Spanish/British force. One of the few times Britain and Spain were not fighting each other in those times.

Mark

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(NT) 1813 it seems, not 1812
Nov 24, 2011 9:22PM PST
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heh, heh, those tricky timelines
Nov 25, 2011 12:12AM PST
Wink
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(NT) So NOW it's a timeline and NOT your fuzzy memory?
Nov 25, 2011 12:20AM PST
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US sailors taken, sovereignty challenged...
Nov 24, 2011 5:55AM PST

Actually it was the other way around. We invaded them and it didn't work out well at all, but we burned their govt. building down. They in turn burned Washington when it came later. Also at that same time after the fires got started, since little if any resistance was put up for long. That a weather front came in and did more damage to British troops than any enemy action during that campaign. It was so wet and bad, that it in turn put out the fires and put the hurt of the British troops. However, a hulk of a Washington WH was left. Because of this any furniture of Dolly Madison's or the then WH are considered "national treasures" if ever recovered, because they were documented, some were actually returned after the fire, but other furniture is said to have gone to England. Yeah, it was moved for safe keeping and Pres. Madison reportedly wisked away important papers as well, buried them and retrieved them later, the US Constitution being one of those papers.

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I guess my memory was a bit fuzzy
Nov 24, 2011 5:40PM PST

on the timeline and particulars. Grin

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I KNOW!!!!I KNOW!!!!
Nov 23, 2011 7:17PM PST

Are you sure you want to bring it up?

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(NT) I thought you might
Nov 23, 2011 8:46PM PST
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But you said you hoped it would never happen again.
Nov 23, 2011 9:16PM PST

Me thinks that, today, a few might not mind if it did. Devil