(Image via the US Navy Art Collection)During the A... ...owever, serve the basis of an excellent alternate history novel. Harry Turtledove, I've got a job for you!
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/11/The-Confederate-Navys-Crazy-Plan-to-Raid-the-Great-Lakes/(Photo: Dalhousie University)Dalhousie University... ...reference to an episode in American and Canadian history from 1814.After Napoleon abdicated in 1814, Brita...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/07/How-a-Road-in-Canada-Was-Named-after-a-Pillaged-American-Town/This is Lake Superior. It's the largest lake in North America.This is Isle Royale. It's the largest island in Lake Superior. Native Americans once mined it for copper. Benjamin Franklin, one of the American negotiators o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/05/The-Largest-Island-in-the-Largest-Lake-in-the-Largest-Island-in-the-Largest-Lake-in-North-America/(Photo: V.L. Sharpton)300,000 years ago, a meteorite hit western Australia, boring a hole 400 feet deep and 2,880 feet across into the surface of the earth. This crater, now known as Wolfe Creek Crater, gradually filled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/03/Wolfe-Creek-Crater-A-Natural-Garden-inside-a-Meteorite-Crater/(Photo: Squelle)The War of 1812 ended in a draw between the United States and Britain. But it could have ended badly for the United States, particularly in the second half of 1814. So after the war, President Madison vo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/24/Fort-Blunder-The-Fort-That-America-Accidentally-Built-in-Canada/Do you remember the Indian Stream Republic? It was a tiny, short-lived nation that formed in the Eighteenth Century on the ambiguous border between the United States and British Canada. It wasn't the only one.(Image: Ame...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/21/The-Republic-of-Madawaska-A-Short-Lived-Nation-on-the-US-Canadian-Border/(Photo: Atlas Obscura)The Saint Croix River forms part of the boundary between the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The river empties into Passamaquoddy Bay, where it encounters a strong Atla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/16/Old-Sow-The-Sarlacc-of-Canada/(Photo: Science Museum)Two hundred years ago, the... ...graphy: Guttman, Jon. "Congreve Rocket." Military History 25.4 (2008): 25. Biography Reference Bank. Web. 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/The-Rockets-Red-Glare-in-The-Star-Spangled-Banner-Refers-to-These-Things/(Image: Citynoise)The United States secured its independence from Britain through the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The second article attempted to define the boundaries of the new nation. This led to further problems and dis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/The-Indian-Stream-Republic-A-Little-Nation-on-the-US-Canadian-Border/Hyder, Alaska, population 87, is, practically speaking, cut off from the United States. The easiest way to get there is by road through the nearby Canadian town of Stewart. Daily life there is tied more to Canada than th...
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