21 Apr 12. While it does no harm to shake water, the 'scientific' explanation for doing so which you have been given is complete poppycock! What happens when you shake water is that it aerates it and small bubbles of air become suspended for a time in the water.
Hopes for a British victory in the war against America are dashed. In the English Parliament, there will soon be calls to bring this long costly war to an end. August 27, 1782 - The last fighting of the Revolutionary War between Americans and British occurs with a skirmish in South Carolina along the Combahee River.
In what proved to be the largest battle of the Revolutionary War in terms of total combatants, Washingtonâs forces on August 22, 1776 were flanked out of their positions atop the Gowanus Heights (part of todayâs modern Brooklyn) and soundly defeated by William Howe's roughly 20,000 man force on Long Island.