Subject: Re: Perejil as you have... -> esma border at Ceuta
Date: Sep 26, 2002 @ 21:35
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> I see that the border (Spain/Neutral zone) was actually drawn onthe
> basis of the range of a certain type of cannon! Now this was atfirst
> my hypothesis regarding the land boundary near Vianden(Luxembourg),
> which later on I retracted, much to the chagrine of Michael wholiked
> the idea and even found the date of the invention of the cannon toBTW,
> support it. But my wild guess was not as wild as it seemed then!
> do you know what a "cannon of 24 of the type anciently known" (if Ithis from message 6869 is another example of a gratuitous smear
> translate it correctly) is, or was?