What was the best way to spread information? Everything from news, gossip, and emergencies
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Pre-telegraph it was messenger and horseman. That was how mail got distributed but there were also express riders for urgent messages that would take half the time. Even so, info-lag was huge and often costly, such as in the case of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812) which was fought 18 days after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which formally ended the War of 1812, on December 24, 1814.
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