And the Battle of New Orleans was fought two weeks after the peace treaty was signed..............things were kinda slow back then.............
To us ex-canadians, canadian schools brag about this “history” in every grade level, ( as an FU to America because canadian kids have an inferiority complex). If we know about it, then American leftards pretend it didnt happen?
Haha. TDS sufferer, Bob Fredericks, gets it wrong again...
https://nypost.com/2018/06/06/trump-wrongly-accused-canada-of-torching-white-house-in-war-of-1812/
Ha!
“Canada was not independent of Britain in 1814. And Canadian schools still teach the burning of DC as retaliation for US burning Toronto.”
Canada didn’t even exist as a sovereign nation in 1814.
Oh God.
Canadians HATE America if only for that one thing.
Trump really should keep his mouth shut most of the time.
As for this comment, I think it’s funny how Canadians get all unctious about so-called War of 1812 (really should be the British War) as being Americans invading THEIR country.
They were not a country; they were colonies. Under the thumb of Britain (and still largely beholden to them). It was BRITAIN we were attacking and how else were we going to do it? Go over the sea with a couple ships and attack? Better to start near home.
Iirc history and military history were two subjects that Donald J Trump excelled in at the NYMA. He was a good student and served in the highest positions of the school his senior year. (One elected by the faculty the other by his fellow cadets. )
We have fought six wars with Canada—more than we have with any other country. However, in four of them (the War of the League of Augsburg, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Third Silesian War) we were English and they were French.
What came first ...the burning of the WH by the Canadians or the burning of my widowed 4th GGM’s house in St David, Ontario by the Americans...
BTW the American officer who went through Ontario burning private homes etc was fired...
JOSEPH Brant, the Mohawk. Get facts straight.
And again, Canadians were not “Canadians”. They were Canadian-British, or British subjects. Exactly as “American” colonists had been just 40 years prior, American-British.
And yes, they indeed spout off about DC being retaliation for York.
I’ve been in these discussions on history fora quite a few times. Oooo, the vitriol... and jealousy.
The Canadians were gonna burn down the schools here in 1814. The armed schoolmarms drove them off coz them schools were armed fortresses.
Really? Whoda thunk it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aue-zWxYtEc
Canadian group “Three Trolls in a Baggie” with their song the War of 1812
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The Grits eventually gave up on the idea of pushing through from Canada. They lost Brock, They lost Tecumseh, and they fizzled after MacDonough and Perry beat the Brits on the Great Lakes.
Strictly speaking it was the British and not the Canadians.
For the record: A great majority of Canadians most certainly do NOT hate the United States.
When you hear about Canadians who dislike/hate the US, its usually the same culprits that we see in America who also hate the US: LEFTISTS.
The brotherly love that is most often shared between Americans and Canadians is usually between Conservative Americans and Canadians.
Trump should pull us out of NAFTA and negotiate with Canada and Mexico separately. They are trying to stand their ground with Trump and they need to realize quickly he's not going to back down until he gets what he wants. He has to keep showing he's willing to take action if he doesn't see signs they are serious about giving in to some of our demands.
I remember 60 years ago when Disney’s THE SWAMP FOX was on. The Canadians were having a fit because of all the anti-Tory talk in it as so many Tories left the soon-to-be USA and resettled in Canada.
There is one other interesting dimension to “187”-that it comes to mind because of British Intel involvement in the attempted coup against PDJT. In fact they may turn out to be the prime instigators that elements in our govmt were working on behalf of the Brits.
09/11/1814-09/11/2001 = 187
911 was an attempted American kill shot
09/11/1814 was the Battle of Plattesburg-the final defeat of the Brits in the War of 1812