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   From: faminiter@comcast.net   
      
   On 11/13/2010 11:40 AM, Peter Baeder wrote:   
   >>   
   > Well, the USA will rot in hell because it will have a very arid and   
   > dry climate, so it will come back to the good old days in 1813 when   
   > the US attempted to invade Canada, their million man army was turned   
   > back by 50,000 British Regulars, 500,000 Canadians and several   
   > thousand indians.   And then the British marched down to DC and   
   > torched the White House in revenge for the sacking of Toronto.   
   >   
      
   Million man army in 1813????  What history book did you   
   read?  The regular army only reached about 38,000 by war's   
   end, and the local militias mostly operated in their own   
   areas, which meant that many were not involved at all.   
      
   And no, 500K Canadians were not involved in the fighting.   
   More like 14,000, including militias.   
      
   "Marched down to DC" ?  No, wrong again.  They sailed up   
   Chesapeake Bay and came across the peninsula.   
      
   --   
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
   In dem Lande der Pygmäen   
   gibt es keine Uniformen,   
   weder Abzeichen, noch irgend welche Normen,   
   Und Soldaten sind dort nicht zu sehen.   
      
   Siegfried von Vegesack, "Es gibt keine Uniformen"   
         from In dem Lande der Pygmäen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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