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Remember the River Raisin.
I doubt the Americans care about what the Japanese, Germans, Mexicans, Spanish, British, or any other country that they defeated in wars thinks about their war celebrations, so they have no right to complain...
Soccer is feetball.... ONLY America has football...
A major difference between Canada the UK and America..
Feetball is boring, football is not..
This isn't quite the Revolution, but it's pretty close.
Obama could go up to Ottawa and grovel and apologize on international television. Canada might have to appoint a non-white individual to receive the apology, but I’m sure that could be taken care of.
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Maybe the Canadians can commemorate the North American phase of the Napoleonic Wars by remembering that they were just that: the U.S. sided with Napoleon against the British (we had equal justification for tilting either way since both Britain and France were impressing American sailors, but out of gratitude to the French for their assistance in our War of Independence, lingering antipathy toward the British, and some Jacobin sentiment, we tilted toward Napoleon).
Personally I’m for renumbering World Wars, so that “I” goes to the Seven Years War (of which the “French and Indian War” was the North American campaign, but which also had an Indian campaign in addition to the well-known European war; “II” to the Napoleonic Wars (with the “War of 1812” as part of them); “III” to what’s now WW I; “IV” for what’s now WW II; “V” to ‘the Cold War’ of which Korea and Vietnam were campaigns; and “VI” to the “War on Terror”. Surely a Quixotic goal: getting enough strategic clarity for folks to call the Cold War “WW III” as Norman Podhertz insists, and the WoT “WW IV” is hard enough.
As a political entity Canada didn’t even exist in 1812. The war was between the US and Britain. Sort of round two of the revolutionary war. A lot of the fighting was on soil that is now Canada but that is it. One of the main instigations of the war happened on the high seas and nowhere near Canada as it is today.
Cue the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUu249jSprw&feature=related
(from a young lady's video submitted for extra credit in her social studies class)
How about a do-over and see how it comes out this time?
Just kidding. The Canucks are O.K.
aka The War of Canadian Aggression.
I'll withhold my decision on how complete I want the reenactment to be until I see who wins the election in 2012.
With pride.
Pretending that history didn't happen is silly. (Nearly as silly as the US decision to invade Canada but let's not go there!) I don't suggest burning Washington DC in effigy but Canada fought well and they should remember it with pride.
My only regret is that the U.S. didn’t conquer Canada and claim the land as its own.
Course I say the same about Mexico.
Conquest and be done with it.
1812 wasn’t a real war... how could it be? Slavery or oil weren’t involved.
I think “200 years of peace” would be fitting but we’d have to wait until 2015.
Canada should celebrate it however they wish.
Heck, Canadians can even keep up the fantasy that the US invaded Canada and was defeated by Canadians in that war.
The US did invade ground that became Canada at a later date. The US forces did get their heads handed to them, but it was by British forces under British command.
The US and Britain were at war and British forces were not only to our north, but had a habit of using the rivers in that AO that headed south as an invasion route.
So, Canada should celebrate however they wish. And, when the usual fantasy stuff gets brought up about how mean ol’ USA got beat by Canadians, we’ll just smile and say “oh, how cute” as we’ve grown accustomed to over the years.
The War of Southern Agression :)