OT: War of 1812

[Wilson Gray]

Was it Farragut and

"We have not yet begun to fight!"

?

Considering how things worked out, there's definitely a grain of truth
in that saying.=: did we ever beginn to fight?

-Wilson

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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> On 5/27/10 3:37 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> At 3:13 PM -0400 5/27/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>> I think that I was in the '50's, before I even knew that the U.S. had
>>> tried to invade Canada. I knew that there had been some battle on the
>>> Great Lakes that gave birth to some saying that I can't recall, at the
>>> moment.
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> Admiral something-or-other on Lake Erie, no?
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> Alice
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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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