July 24/history

[more] What else happened today
1814 — General Phineas Riall advances by night toward Niagara with 1,000 men to hold back Jacob Brown's American invaders; he is greatly outnumbered and waits for reinforcements from Kingston under General Sir Gordon Drummond. 1929 — The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect. A fat lot of good that did...