Stranger Than Fiction: War of 1812: With Parody Lyrics - Paperback

by M. a. Noble (Author)

You've never learned history like this! War facts you couldn't make up, woven with rhythm and melody, make the War of 1812 hard to forget. Did you know... -Spying was easy? Enemy plans could be read in the newspaper. -The new Paul Revere was a woman? She warned the British that the Americans were coming. -U.S. troops looted and burned York? The U.S. attacked the Upper Canada capital before the British sacked Washington. -A tornado ravaged the British in the U.S. capital? The storm killed more British than the Americans did. -The St. Lawrence River was a smugglers' highway? Residents on either side were trading partners with no interest in fighting. -New England nearly seceded? Several states almost preceded the South in leaving the Union. -How slow news travelled? The Battle of New Orleans was fought after the peace treaty was signed. PARODIES: O Grab Me! In the (Royal) Navy Whistle Blowin' Mama My Fleet's Bigger than Yeo's Payback Tango For Want of the Telegraph This Land Privateers We Be Battle of the Mosquito When You Pray with Papa The St. Lawrence River Runs Free I Marry and I Tarry Give Me a Little More Wine The Ignoble Doom of York Hello Dolly Madison NO Canada!