Nikademus
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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart "Oh, in 1814 we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans. We fired our guns and the British kept a comin' There wasn't as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they began to runnin' On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah! they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico." "The raids were, to use an American expression, "Scaring the Militia"....Some Americans used to say, "What did King George send you here from the old country to come and scare us for? We don't go to yours to frighten you, I guess. Your confounded sarpents come and anchor in our waters; then send their barges, full of armed men, who are pulling about day and night, landing here and there, scaring us and our families very considerably---tarnation sieze them." Our reply used to be, "You must ask your President, Jim Madison, he invited us." -Lt William Stanhope Lovell -RN HMS Severn My favorite quote.
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