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The 1812 overture

机译:1812年的序曲

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Canada and the United States started the new year by firing cannons at each other across the Niagara river, which separates the province of Ontario from the state of New York, leaving a whiff of gunpowder and politicking in the air. The guns at Fort George on the Canadian side and Old Fort Niagara on the American shore were replicas of those from the 1812 war between the two countries, and were loaded with blanks. They fired the first salvo in what Canada's government plans as a noisy 200th anniversary celebration of a largely forgotten war in which British redcoats, colonial militia and Indian allies stopped an American invasion (which Thomas Jefferson mistakenly predicted was "a mere matter of marching") of what was then a sparsely populated string of colonies. "The heroic efforts of those who fought for our country in the War of 1812 tell the story of the Canada we know today: an independent and free country with a constitutional monarchy and its own distinct parliamentary system," says James Moore, the minister of Canadian Heritage.
机译:加拿大和美国在新年伊始就用大炮在尼亚加拉河上互相射击,这条河将安大略省与纽约州分隔开来,并散发着火药味和政治气息。加拿大一侧的乔治堡和美国沿岸的尼亚加拉古堡的枪炮是两国1812年战争时的枪械的复制品,里面装满了空白。他们发动了加拿大政府计划的第一次齐射,这是一场喧闹的200周年庆典,庆祝一场被人们广泛遗忘的战争,在这场战争中,英国红军,殖民民兵和印度盟军阻止了美国的入侵(托马斯·杰斐逊错误地认为这仅仅是“行军”)那是一排人烟稀少的殖民地。 “ 1812年战争中为我们国家而战的人们的英勇努力,讲述了我们今天所知道的加拿大的故事:一个拥有君主立宪制和自己独特的议会制的独立和自由的国家,”加拿大遗产。

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    《The economist》 |2012年第8766期|p.34|共1页
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