XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 3/27/2024 4:03 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >> Tim Illingworth  wrote:   
   >>> Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>> Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains.  Russia has   
   >>>> been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not.   
   >>   
   >>> December 1814 not count?   
   >>   
   >> I think you mean August of that year.  More recently there was an   
   >> invasion of Pennsylvania in June and July 1863.   
   >   
   > 1814 definitely counts, although we really needed a new capitol building   
   > anyway.   
   >   
   > The 1863 invasion is kind of a special case because it depends on whether   
   > you define the invaders as US citizens or not.  Since the war was about   
   > who was a citizen and who wasn't, and the US won, I think it fair to define   
   > them as rebellious citizens.  My Confederate-supporting high school history   
   > teacher would not do so, however.   
   >   
   >> Some might also count January 2021.  Is it an invasion of all   
   >> participants were US citizens?  One person there was carrying the   
   >> flag of the nation (not US state) of Georgia, though he was probably   
   >> just confused.   
   >   
   > Does not count, for the same reason that 1863 unpleasantness doesn't.   
      
   Agreed, insurrection is not invasion.   
      
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