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July 26, 2016

Remembering Lundy's Lane

July 26, 2016/ Don Cummer
Remembering Lundy's Lane

It was on this day, 202 years ago, that the American army under General Jacob Brown, pulled back to the Chippewa River to lick its wounds and count the dead.  The night before, just a short distance from Niagara Falls, they had fought the bloodiest battle ever on Canadian soil.

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