Yeh, Mark, we Canadians find it amazing that how you Yanks brag about WWII when we clearly saved your asses according to our national broadcasting system:-) And I bet few Americans learn about the American invasion of Toronto (or Muddy York as it was then, in the early 1800s). Canada employed our own special variation of the "scorched Earth" fallback defense that Russia has used so successfully against Napolean and Hilter: "The incredibly dull town defense". The Yanks seized York, and braced themselves for the counter-attack they were sure would come. And waited. And waited. Finally, after several days, their troops started dieing of boredom, and they retreated to the States. Let that be a warning. We're just as capable of being as boring now as we were then. > >> >"Cockleshell Heroes" (1956, British) Dir: Jose Ferrer > >the parts i saw were amusing in someways, and pretty deep, as they were >training. real life is never as exciting as the movies ;-) so... i'd >watch it again, from start to finish, if i could. i saw it on the history >channel, which lways had a disclaimer "not available in canada" -- we >wondered if your history isn't the same as ours ;-) > >mark ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 09:05:00 PDT
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