My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
If one side sacks a capital is that a victory? Or not if the enemy takes revenge? The capture and sacking of York did result in retaliation – the burning of the White House – but neither proved decisive.
However, since Gregory Wendell, the author of the diary in ‘Seeking A Knife’in my Snowdon Shadows series, was an RN officer stationed there, it impacted on him.
How much do you know about the War of 1812? Were you aware of where York was? No, not York as in Jorvik. The York in Upper Canada. Does burning the White House even seem feasible?
Links to my other 2020 A to Z posts can be found here: https://rolandclarke.com/blogging-from-a-to-z/blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge-2020/
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Writing Wings 
War and all of the ‘tit for tat’ actions does my head in. Then and now.
How I wish we would/could learn from our conflicts.
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Sadly, humanity doesn’t learn – especially politicians and other armchair generals, Sue. So, we arrived at MAD, the most frightening escalation – Mutually Assured Destruction. 😦
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Sometimes I find it very hard to like our species.
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Moi aussi.
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Wo
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A very interesting and important message for humanity.
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The history lesson? As long as we learn.
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Wo? Stop?
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No, I never heard of that particular York. And the war of 1812 is not familiar, except for the 1812 Overture… Sorry!
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The war in North America got overshadowed by events in Europe, Sue – and that overture was one result. I didn’t know about the other York until I started digging.
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