On 01-12-10 7:25 PM, Ross Cassell -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
    RC> Hello Alan!   
      
    RC> 01 Dec 10 13:12, you wrote to James Bradley:   
      
    JB>>> Isn't it amazing how history changes/expounds/contracts depending   
    JB>>> on who you confer with?   
      
    AZ>> The entire War of 1812 story varies 180 degrees depending on whether   
    AZ>> it's told in the US or Canada. In the US (where I went to elementary   
    AZ>> and high school) it's a war that the US fought with Britain as a   
    AZ>> result of British aggressive acts like boarding US ships and forcing   
    AZ>> sailors into the British navy - and that the US won.   
      
    RC> True except I wasnt tought that we won... I was taught in school that it   
    RC> was fought to a draw..   
      
   Fair enough...   
      
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