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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> > Finally, New Orleans is not Copenhagen.  The approach to the
> city requires
> > sailing about a hundred miles up the Mississippi river -- no
> in-and-out like
> > Copenhagen.
>
> Or else you can do as the British did during the War of 1812 - cross a
> shallow lake in small craft, then thrash through the bayou
> country.  The only
> advantage in that approach is surprise; it was much harder work
> than going upriver
> (though any good defender could have made it very expensive to
> move on the
> river).
>
Which illustrates the problem.

As tough as the approach march is, the withdrawal is even worse.

"They ran through the brush and they ran through the brambles And they
ran through places where a rabbit couldn't go They ran so fast a hound
couldn't catch them Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico." :-)


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