Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 4, 2000, 3:39 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> > Did you know
> > that most Americans don't know that Canada is the only nation to burn
> > the US capital to the ground?
>
> But Canada wasn't a nation at the time, they were a British possession,
> so it's only partially true.
It's all an issue of semantics, at the time Canada was a colony, and
colonial soldiers did participate in the burning. I've been having a
lengthy discussion off the list with Thomas Wier about this, and thats
the conclusion we've come to.