[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 28 Feb 2001 20:00:41 -0600556_us-ascii > Enjoy....again, this is with Frank's permisson....malinda
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> Frank Pierce Young wrote:
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> > American Privateers in the War of 1812 (1 of 2)
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> > When on 18 June 1812 the U.S. Congress declared war upon the United Kingdom
> > of Great Britain & Ireland, etc., a weak new nation grabbed the Lion by its
> > tail. The U.S. War Department was an incompetent political mess and its
> > little army of 6,700 little better, when Great Britain could move thousands
> > of crack troops as it pleased. (And it did; [...]41_28Feb200120:00:
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