[Team Cuda]

Very interesting read - I had not known that the British Empire maintained forts on US territory after the Revolutionary War, with their status not finalized unitl 1814. I’ll have to read more about this.

I do agree with the contention that Guantanamo is similar to Sumter, though. In both we have a legal right to be there, and an unprovoked attack on either would be considered an act of War.

[BroJoeK]

Team Cuda: " I had not known that the British Empire maintained forts on US territory after the Revolutionary War, with their status not finalized unitl 1814.
I’ll have to read more about this."

Somewhere I saw a detailed report and map of these forts, but a quick google only gives me this one: British forts on United States land, 1783 to 1814.

And here:

"Britain officially ceded the area north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachians to the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War with the Treaty of Paris (1783), but the British continued to maintain a presence in the region as late as 1815, the end of the War of 1812."