White House loot anchors fight over sunken bounty [War of 1812]

The Hamilton Spectator ^ | 22. September 2006 | Alison Auld

[headsonpikes]

Well, give us all the loot first as a sign of good faith, and then we'll enter into negotiations for the rest.

21st Century Sam Slick alert!

And don't try to sell us any durn clocks, neither!

[Mr. Silverback]

Dive ping!

[Mr. Silverback]

Gotta give this one to the Brits. Warships are not available for salvage. I don't care if they were carrying George Washington's coffin, the law is the law. After all, when the French wanted to plunder CSS Alabama off their coast, our State Department threw a fit.

[Mr. Silverback]

Ping!

[Mr. Silverback]

Take whatever you like provided you also take back every last stinking Vietnam-era draft dodger & military deserter infesting Canada for the past over 3 decades!

Ain't no loot worth that, friend.

[Mr. Silverback]

To be frank, I always wondered why the Spanish didn't try to claim any of the treasures that came from sunken galleons in American and Caribbean waters.

[SunkenCiv]

I think they tried with the Atocha.

[GMMAC]

Maybe America should try to cut a deal directly with Brits?

Maybe, say, offer to let them have just Massachusetts back?

[Mr. Silverback]

Maybe, say, offer to let them have just Massachusetts back?

I like the way you think.

[PzLdr]

Just give them Teddy Kennedy. He's equal in weight to the plunder - and the ship. And he's been under water before.

[Rte66]

Not for long, he wasn't. Not long enough, at any rate.

[Southack]

"The Fantome ran into a vicious storm on Nov. 24, 1814, and was thought to have gone down after accidentally heading into a shallow shoal."

The Fantome, of course, was carrying the loot from the sacking of Washington, D.C.

A hurricane promptly sank the Fantome before it could deliver its loot.

The British army had invaded Washington, D.C. and set fire to the city on August 24, 1814.

One day later, a massive line of severe thunderstorms spawned a tornado in Washington that hit the British barracks, killing numerous British soldiers and wounding many more. It caused so much damage to the British forces that they were forced, by the weather, to retreat out of Washington, D.C.

Heavy rain then extinguished the fires that burned throughout Washington, neither Americans nor British being there to douse any.

Don't mess with the U.S.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Irish_Thatcherite]

*reads title*

Time for Johnny Horton...

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We looked down the river and we see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**

We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down.
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

[1rudeboy]

That reminds me. What happened to the Chalmette Battlefield/National Cemetary and the Beauregard House? Last I heard it was all under water.

[patton]

Dang. Earworm.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Is the reference to 'underwater' a trick to get me to post "Sink The Bismarck" or "Rubin James"? :-P

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Earworm?

[patton]

When a song gets stuck in your head.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ah... at least it isn't that Milkshake song....