None of this pertains to vintage bicycles.
Garry Nold Kent, WA
20miles flat and sunny on classic Italian steed Sunday.
> On 02/23/2004 04:24 AM, "kim klakow" <Akimbo71@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Actually that war ended in 1776.
>
>
> Actually that war started in April 1775 when General Gage ordered his
troops
> to march on Concord, and ended in September 1783 with the signing of the
> Treaty of Paris.
>
> Hostilities essentially ceased after Cornwallis surrendured at Yorktown,
VA
> in October 1781, although there were minor skirmishes between British and
> American troops as late as August 1782.
>
> The War of 1812 officially lasted from June 1812 to December 1814 (with
the
> signing of the Treaty of Ghent), and resulted from longstanding disputes
> between the British and Americans, most notably over the impressment of
> American sailors into the British Navy/Merchant Marines, but also border
> squabbles with Canada (still firmly under British control at the time).
>
> The last battle of the War of 1812 was in January 1815, when Andrew
> Jackson's troops attacked and resoundly defeated (some might say
massacred)
> the British during the Battle of New Orleans (700 British dead, 1400
> wounded. 8 Americans dead, 13 wounded).
>
> Shortly thereafter in April 1818, Karl von Drais exhibited his Draisienne
> (one of the predecessors of the modern bicycle) in Paris, although the
first
> bicycle propelled by foot pedals was not built until the late 1830s or
early
> 1840s by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a blacksmith from Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
>
> Steven L. Sheffield
> History buff in Midvale, Utah
>
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