(Texas Military Forces Museum)It can be hard to determine precisely which is the first or last engagement of a war or what qualifies as a battle. But one can plausibly argue that the last battle of the American Civil War...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/16/The-South-Won-the-Last-Battle-of-the-Civil-War/This is a painting of HMS St. Lawrence. With 112 guns, it was the largest warship ever seen on the Great Lakes and the largest Royal Navy vessel to ever sail entirely on fresh water.After Napoleon abdicated, the British...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/15/In-1814-This-Massive-Warship-Cruised-Lake-Ontario/(USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama by Xanthus Smith)I&... ...tion from original sources. But if it is not good history , then it is at least a good story. Upon casually... ...relationship of shared language, culture, law and history
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/1871-War-Averted-Between-the-US-and-Britain-When-the-US-Agrees-to-Not-Split-Infinitives/(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/
