It was a beautiful July 4 and Newgate was all prepared to celebrate another Battleday as it had for over two centuries.  For one of the first times ever, bands from outside Newgate were invited to participate in the parade down Newgrun Avenue from where the Newgate Diner is located all the way to Lake Praven.  With free breakfast being offered at the diner, it was a logical place to start the parade after a big breakfast.  The buses had to be parked along the road and in the parking lot of the Newgate Country Club down the road a mile.  Tables were lined up in the parking lot of the diner so hundreds of marchers could be fed before marching.  And with synthetics serving the diners and all four eight-armed cooks preparing the food since 4:00 AM, there was plenty of food for everyone.  The molecular material for the food and beverage synthesizers came from another dimension that didn’t miss it. 

There were floats in the parade like the one sponsored by the Newgate Baptist Temple which commemorated the debate the pastor in 1914 had with Satan a week before WW I began.  The pastor and Satan are in front of a small congregation debating the Bible and other Christian and Satanic subjects. 

The diner sponsored another float which commemorated Thanksgiving Day 1941 when Nazi Colonel Max Shenckel stopped off at the diner with his men before they attempted to drive to Niagara Falls to destroy the power plant there to involve this nation in WW II.   Demon wolves are shown with Nazi soldiers at their mercy and the colonel with his Luger pressed under his chin ready to be fired.

City Hall hada float commemorating the founding of Newgate by Strom Newgrun, Dervis Mangen, Febris Nackles, Bevern Forbren, Tunk Haarn, and his wife Leena.  They are shown on one end of the float with a transporter portal between them and a descendant of the Oneida chief that made a treaty with the founders in 1674 along with other descendants of Oneidas that were there. 

A fourth float sponsored by the Newgate Public Library commemorated the appearance by HG Wells and Jules Verne in Newgate with the librarian in 1901.   Projections of things from the books of both men are displayed on the float and also in the air like the projectile from Verne’s book “A Trip To the Moon and Back” and one of the three-legged walkers the Martians attacked earth in.