[SAMWolf]

'The Battle of Chrysler's Farm is the story of General James Wilkinson's ill-fated attempt at invasion and the taking of Montreal, which was an abject failure. While the troops employed by the Americans were Regulars, they were both ill-trained and badly led, these rookies having a generally hard time campaigning in the rugged Canadian wilderness, and being roughly handled by a smaller number of experienced British Regulars and Canadians.

Wilkinson himself was a political hack, a "confidence man in uniform," who, as second in command to Anthony Wayne with the Legion of the United States in 1794, had tried to backstab that very competent general in his campaign to defeat the tribes in the Old Northwest. More interested in his own comfort, and happy to cheat his men out of their rations to fill his own wallet, Wilkinson set the stage for disaster in this abortive offensive, that former President Thomas Jefferson remarked would "only be a matter of marching."'

Donald E. Graves

[SAMWolf]

[Samwise]

I had no idea we ever tried to take Canada.

[snippy_about_it]

No matter how many times we tried I don't think we ever gave battling Canada 100 percent.

It's like swatting a fly who is annoying you.

[U S Army EOD]

We could have pulled this one off if we had just told the Canadians that all those troops coming across the border were either deserters and were just trying to advoid the draft. I mean, it worked in the sixties and seventies.