--- Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't mean the "Top Thrill Dragster", the one-time fastest and highest Roller Coaster located at Cedar Point, Sandusky.....;-) I can't handle > the blood-rush after one of those rides. Pleeez !! > Mario replies: Cornel, are you reading this to add to your list, this one of Goan Canadians?
No, Bosco, none of these. You have proved a second time that your knowledge of Ohio history is somewhat lacking, but I am glad to continue educating you. The monument is at Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, close to where the British were defeated. An excerpt from a history book reads as follows: On 10 September 1813, Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry met and defeated a British flotilla, under Commander Robert Heriot Barclay, at the Battle of Lake Erie. With a squadron of nine ships, manned as a mixed crew of soldiers, marines, and sailors, Perry achieved one of the most significant victories of the War of 1812. Moments after the final gun went silent, Perry wrote his now famous message to General William Henry Harrison: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." > Bosco writes: After admonishing Mervyn (and me) that Canada was a socialist blah-blah, now you are asking me whether we are monarchy?? We have elections you know.....just like you.....and our politicians throw dirt at each other......just like yours.....and at the end of those shenanigans a Prime Minister will lead Her Majesty's government albeit I'm uncertain whether H.M. is creaming us for a slice of the Alberta tar-sands. > Mario replies: As I suspected the Queen is still the head of your government. You used a lot of verbiage to finally arrive at the admission that your Prime Minister leads Her Majesty's government. > Bosco writes: > Now....the Peace Treaty still holds ?? Or do you want us to sail down the Welland Canal and across Erie with our flintlocks and muskets ?? > Mario replies: I guess so since Her Majesty's various governments have become our allies, some strong like the always reliable Aussies and Brits, some weak like the PRC. You are always welcome to cross the pond, but keep your muskets and flintlocks behind lest you be mistaken for one of those jihadis that are lurking in Canada, at least one on the staff of the Toronto Star. But with the knowledge you are exhibiting I may have to send you written directions to the Welland Canal. >
