my morning transAtlantic discussion of American history

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From: Mario Huet <mario@libertarian.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [LA-F] old England
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On 23/08/2011 12:53, Bruce Majors wrote:

 

Funny.  There is a Deal (may be spelled Deale) in a rural area south of Annapolis, Maryland, in Anne Arundel county, obviously named after one of your Queen Annes (beside a Maryland County called Prince George's County and another called Caroline county).  Nearby, across the Chesapeake Bay are some towns getting close to the Atlantic ocean, St. Michael's, Salisbury, and Easton.

During the American revolution the British were going to fire cannons at night, I think from ships, at Easton and St. Michael's, to subdue the rebels.  The proto-Americans hung lamps in some trees for misdirection and the British fired on a woods a few miles away thinking the lights were the town.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Mario Huet <mario@libertarian.co.uk> wrote:

 

If it happened today, the lamps would all be smashed by environmentally responsible Americans. They'd probably also tell us exactly where to fire, so as to cause the least disruption to innocent plants and insects.

--  Mario Huet e-mail: mario@libertarian.co.uk                **************************************************               *   Words cannot picture her; but all men know   *               * That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought *               **************************************************                        James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night 

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