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Photo Credit: Canadian loyalists set fire to the rebel steamer Caroline and send her drifting toward Niagara Falls.
By Chuck Lyons
In December 1837, 400 men armed with muskets, pitchforks, and staves marched against the city of Toronto and the British government. Intercepted by pickets, the undisciplined and ill-trained farmers, shopkeepers and students were driven back at gunpoint. One man was killed and the rest fled. The rebellion spread from the Toronto streets all the way to an island in the Niagara River and on to the St. Lawrence River, with periodic raids launched from American soil against Canadian
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Very interesting and a part of history I had never heard about before. It would be interesting to read what history will say about this time we live in, in say 100 years from now. I doubt it will be known as a ”shining example” for future generations to emulate. But hope none will be embarrassed by what their ancestors [us] did or did not do.