History Lessons
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 7:43 PM
Today's history lesson will seem almost crazy in view of instantaneous communications of today. In the war of 1812, the United States won exactly one battle: The battle of New Orleans. It made andrew jackson president and got Jonny Horton a gold record. How and why does it relate to communication? In 1814 communication was very slow, so slow in fact that news of the treaty to end the war failed to reach the United States in a timely fashion and thus all those people died in the battle for New Orleans for nothing; it happened fifteen days after the war ended with the treaty of Ghent. Next time you wonder if instantaneous communication is good.....
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