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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (256271)	8/18/2003 1:26:44 AM
From: At_The_Ask	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

agree, canucks don't want to start sh*t.....bg

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (256271)	8/18/2003 9:08:41 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

1. Arnold wasn't a traitor until long after he saved the nation at Saratoga. There were lots and lots of traitors. The reason he is so famous is because he had been our most brilliant and patriotic general. Then he became England's most brilliant and loyalist general. Weird guy. The funniest anecdote is that Arnold was shot in the leg at Saratoga. When they asked The Swamp Fox what he would do if he captured Arnold, he said he would bury his leg with a heroes honor and hang the rest of him. Of course, he never got the chance because Arnold whupped him all across South Carolina. 2. The history books are covering up, as usual. Impressment was important in getting the ignorant rabble into a fighting mood, sort of like WMD and the Al Qaida connection, except that there really was impressment, but the main cause was influential war hawks, notably Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun looking for some war booty. 3. The Canadians were chasing the Americans back across the border in 1812. They defeated General Winfred Scott, but then figured their numbers were too small and didn't continue to make incursions into US territory. Scott learned a very important lesson that served him well in The Mexican War: Fight Mexicans, not Canadians or British. 4. We also got a little glory when William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh and The British/Canadians. The fact that the Brits left the field and made the Indians fend for themselves had a lot to do with it. Must have been tea time.