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The Ride of 1812 By Bann Price #141927


OKAY, SO YOU’RE DOING YOUR planning for July’s “Das Rally” in Hamburg, New York. Apart from the journey to the rally, there are plenty of great places to ride in the area, and in doing your planning for a day ride while at the rally, you must of course consider time. But, not time just in terms of hours—time in terms of centuries. From Hamburg you can actually


ride backwards two hundred years, in fact, to the War of 1812-1814. This truly nation-building conflict


saw


some of its most hotly contested and bloodiest battles in the small area on both sides of the Niagara River between Buffalo, New York, and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.


While the area is now a shin- ing example of how two nations can live together in peace, it was not so back then, when the inevitable conse- quences of war turned Niag- ara into a burnt out wasteland. There are reminders and remnants


of that war


throughout the region, all worth a visit, and getting to them is quick and easy, with lots of good riding and inter- esting places to visit along the route. The War of 1812-1814 is one of the only


wars in written history which is entitled using dates, probably because it is some- times hard to determine why it was fought. Not that there was not enough provoca- tion. The British, heavily engaged in


fighting Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe, were behaving in a very high-handed man- ner toward its former colony, blockading American trade in Europe and seizing American shipping on the high seas in search of seamen to man their warships. Diplomacy was a lengthy process in those days, and by the time some of the irritants had been negotiated away in England, the United States Congress had already


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