Re: Long-span Railroad bridges across the Mississippi and other connecting rivers

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:18:14 -0700, Hank Tiffany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Les Brown wrote:
>
>> Mississippi drains part of Canada as well and the OP did not mention US
>> practice specifically), 
>
>Well, actually the Mississippi heads in northern Minnesota. There
>*is* a very small area in Canada that winds up flowing (via the
>Missouri) to the Mississippi. This is along such rivers as the
>Milk, Frenchman, & Poplar in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan,
>the rivers in question flowing into Montana, but IIRC never from more 
>than about 30-40 miles north of the border and mostly less than that.

Yes, I am aware of that (actually, over 27,000 sq. miles of Canada is
drained by the Mississippi). I never said that river begins in Canada  but
nothing changes the veracity of what I said.
>
>Actually there is a far larger area of the USA draining into Lake
>Winnipeg and Hudsons Bay than there is of Canada draining into the
>Mississippi. Or to put it another way, the US took the Brits to
>the cleaners when the border from Lake of the Woods to the
>Rocky mts was set by treaty (1818).
>
Or, let's put it this way: The only successful invasion of continental USA
was by the British in 1812 when they routed an attempted invasion by US
militia into Canada. The British embarrassingly wound up taking more of New
England than what was considered decent. 

Of course if the good burghers of New England had've been more patriotic
they would not have provisioned the British Navy and its marines.

Castlereagh was no fool.

Les Brown