Subject: Re: Perejil as you have... -&gt; esma border at Ceuta<br/>
Date: Jul 25, 2002 @ 13:40<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-196871065">Marcel wrote:<br/>
&quot;After the 1860&#39;s war, there were some treaties between Spain and <br/>
Morocco, called the &quot;Wad-Ras Peace&quot;. I&#39;ve found the Melilla&#39;s treaty <br/>
that established the neutral zone. I suppose it was another similar <br/>
treaty for Ceuta:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=22">http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=22</a> <br/>
(...)&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Thanks!<br/>
<br/>
I see that the border (Spain/Neutral zone) was actually drawn on the <br/>
basis of the range of a certain type of cannon! Now this was at first <br/>
my hypothesis regarding the land boundary near Vianden (Luxembourg), <br/>
which later on I retracted, much to the chagrine of Michael who liked <br/>
the idea and even found the date of the invention of the cannon to <br/>
support it. But my wild guess was not as wild as it seemed then! BTW, <br/>
do you know what a &quot;cannon of 24 of the type anciently known&quot; (if I <br/>
translate it correctly) is, or was?<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>