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Posted by: goatman327
Posted by: Chester Duncan
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: manwith
America got humiliated.A thirty-something-year-old country took on the biggest naval power in the world in a mostly naval conflict. The fact that the US didnt get totally reconquered is enough to call it a stalemate. but the whole point of the bloody war for America was to capture and take over what is now Canada that, and they were pissed at Britain for attacking American trade ships, kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy. Guess they don't teach that tidbit across the pond.
In truth, conquering Canada was the lowest on our list of objectives in the war. We saw it as a means of both forcing the British to cease the trade and maritime restrictions that they were implementing unlawfully on our ships (not to mention the fact that they were taking control of many of our ships, due to the British not recognizing British-born Americans as Americans and subsequently ordering them to relinquish their vessels that they were lawfully on and join the Royal Navy), and to warn the British that we didn't take too kindly to them arming the natives near what is today the American Northwest, which was impeding our expansion in our own territory.
Some people like to think that Canada played a much larger part of the war than it did, oblivious to the truth that, we initially just using them to get Britain's attention. However, the Canadians put up a much better fight than we thought they would.
[Edited on 01.06.2013 1:43 PM PST]