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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
>
> > "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." :-)
>
> Sometimes it amazes me we won the War of 1812.  I suspect the
> sheer size of
> the United States was at least as much a factor as our military
> prowess, which
> during that war we didn't have an impressive amount of.
>
England had no desire to continue fighting after a couple of decades of
almost constant war with France. In addition, there was no way England
could win -- the Duke of Wellington realized that when he told the peace
commission, "No sir, you have no right to demand anything of the
Americans!"

He was proven right when Pakenham, one of his favorite lieutenants was
killed and his army mauled at New Orleans after the peace was signed.
>


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