The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . and Fort Niagara and the entire American shore ofour river, Lewiston, Manchester, Schlosser, Black Rock andBuffalo, devastated in mid-winter by fire and the there are the battle-fields of Queenston Heights andNewark and Black Rock and Buffalo and Fort Erie andChippawa, and this Lundys Lane and there they shallremain forever. Perhaps in the invisible air about, unknown and un-seen, the spirits of all those regulars, militia and Indianson both sides, who took part in this hard-fo
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . and Fort Niagara and the entire American shore ofour river, Lewiston, Manchester, Schlosser, Black Rock andBuffalo, devastated in mid-winter by fire and the there are the battle-fields of Queenston Heights andNewark and Black Rock and Buffalo and Fort Erie andChippawa, and this Lundys Lane and there they shallremain forever. Perhaps in the invisible air about, unknown and un-seen, the spirits of all those regulars, militia and Indianson both sides, who took part in this hard-fought battle, just0 hundred years ago to-night, are now hovering around us,in approval of our amity, among the angels, who foreverkeep watch and ward over every human being, as we liftup our voices in praise of their heroism. As Lincoln said at Gettysburg: The world will littlenote what we say here, but it will never forget what theydid here. Both of us have forgotten the animosities of the long-ago. Both of us pay tribute to the memories of the bravemen who fought here. And both of us look forward with. THE MAYORS WELCOME.
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