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To: Snowshoe who wrote (70231)	8/18/2008 9:25:24 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

That is very cool... Like the view from the top of Mont Tremblant in summer :O) My dad worked for Bell when the DEW line was still in vogue which is why we were up there.. Yep... 60/40 between Flin Flon and the Pas.. They make hockey players up there :O) Lots of natives and dogsleds when I was a kid.. Now I imagine it's mostly snowmobiles... TBS

To: Snowshoe who wrote (70231)	8/20/2008 7:00:46 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (70231)	8/25/2008 5:11:06 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Lake Minnetonka was acquired by the USA in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase<< Before the USA could swallow the vast Louisiana Purchase, it had to fight the War of 1812 with Britain. This culminated in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815, where the Americans under General Andrew Jackson (with the help of some rascally French pirates) gave the British a hefty thumpin'... en.wikipedia.org The American wall of bayou mud and cotton bales absorbed the British cannon balls without damage, and American snipers killed the commanding British general, Sir Edward Michael Pakenham. Like Lord Nelson after Trafalgar, Pakenham's body was pickled in rum and sent home for burial and a memorable quip... ;>) His body was returned in a casket of rum and buried in the Pakenham family vault in Killucan in Westmeath, Ireland. General Pakenham was known for a surly temper and a relative was recorded as remarking "The General has returned home in better spirits than he left." en.wikipedia.org With the British out of the way, the stage was now set for the construction of Fort Snelling in the Upper Mississippi country, and the discovery of nearby Lake Minnetonka.