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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t ofthe harvest moon ; this was regarded as a substantial victoryby the Americans though still annually celebrated as such bythe Canadians. Fort Erie was occupied until November,1S14, and blown up by the Americans when they with<lrew ;it is still in ruins. Navy Island was at one time the principal rendezvous ofthe insurgents in the Canadian rebellion of 1837. On thenight of December 29 of that year a British force crossed toSchlosser in boats and captured the steamer Caroline, whichhad been chartered by Buffalo parties for the purpose ofcarrying excursion parties to visit the camp on Navy Island ;the boat was set on fire and forced over the Falls. This wasregarded as a breach of international law and was the subjectof much correspondence between the two governments. In 1866 the Fenian invasion of Canada was made at this))t)int and the battle of Ridgeway fought. With these ex-ceptions peace has reigned at Niagara since 181^. 1 Failsshed i Hennepins New Dit ^tieet%llv\/ai;^cvicw* 635
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