At 11:37 PM 9/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Bob H. wrote:
>
>> Total deaths for USSR during the war, military and civilian, about 20
>> million.
>>
>> Bob Harris
>> New York
>
>
>Speaking of history, Bob, do you know the last time five thousand or more
>U.S. citizens died on North American soil? I'm guessing it must have been
>one of the brutal battles at the end of the Civil War (Spotsylvania,
>something like that) 136 or 137 years ago.
>
>Would that be right? I can't think of anything since then that has claimed
>so many lives.
>
>--Mike
Try the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 - over 6,000 dead.
For more info, see http://www.1900storm.com/
Michael Nosal
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