How could a newspaper in the Britain report on something that happened in the Americas?
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858, so you could actually get next-day news from Europe after that date.
Before then things came in on a delay.
The Battle of New Orleans was famously fought fifteen days *after* the war of 1812 had formally ended, because word hadn’t yet reached the armies.
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