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UK Motorcycle Tour Legend,Stuart Jenkinson, to Auction his Vincent Black Prince

Stuart Jenkinson, a retired teacher and motorcycle touring legend in the UK, has decided to auction off his 1955 Vincent Black Prince. Jenkinson, now 83, wants to auction it to a caring owner who can take it from the 721,703 miles it currently has to 750,000 and beyond. From the BBC article;

The bike will be auctioned at the International Motorcycle Show in Staffordshire on 24 April 2011 and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 - £40,000.

Go ahead, give Vinnylonglegs a new owner. I'm sure the Battlefield biker readers have £40,000 to spare!

British Defeat Kentucky Riflemen at the Battle of Frenchtown 22 January 1813

Since its shameful fall in August 1812 with scarcely a shot fired in defense, the Americans wanted Detroit back. So embarrased by it, a winter campaign was conceived to win it back. William Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippacanoe, was selected to take back the area and further the American goals in the War of 1812. Harrison's second in command was General James Winchester. The two split their forces to move on Detroit.

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Seminoles Attack Camp Monroe, Florida 8 February 1837

By Spring of 1835 trouble between the Florida indigenous population
was brewing up again. The U.S. government was trying to force the
Seminoles to leave Florida for the Indian Territory of present day
Oklahoma. The enticement to move was flimsy (a blanket per man and a
pittance paid to the tribe), so the Seminoles ignored the Treaty of
Payne's Landing which spelled out the conditions of removal. The
Seminoles found their voice in a firebrand, Osceola, who had fought
with the Creeks against Andrew Jackson. What followed was the Second
Seminole / Florida War.

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Operation Cobra, the American Breakout of the Normandy Beachhead

On the 24th of July 1944, the German forces around St Lo, in
Normandy, did not have a clue about the hell that was about to be
unleashed upon them. Their dispositions looked like this:

Source; http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/AtlasesTableOfContents.html




To the west of St Lo, you can see the area that the Americans chose to
breakout from the close hedgerow fighting that had so favoured the
Germans for the months of June and July 1944.

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