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Any reason why we never invaded Canada?

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Narmer

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We did with Mexico and got a lot of good territory. Canada is right next door and has so much more territory. Plus, there aren't that many Canadians. Good timber; good salmon; more indians to put on reservations (I kid). It's all free.
 
OP, demonstrating the emphasis we put on a good education in American History in this country firsthand! Well done.
 
History challenged, are we?
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D1gger said:
You did .... and got your ass kicked.

Battle of Quebec
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Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold led a force of about 1,200 American army forces and Canadian militia in a multi-pronged attack on the city, which, due to bad weather and bad timing, did not start well, and ended with Montgomery dead, Arnold wounded, and Daniel Morgan and more than 400 men captured. Following a somewhat ineffectual five-month siege, the American forces were driven to retreat by the arrival of ships from England carrying British troops in early May 1776. The battle was the first military defeat for the Continental Army.
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Am I missing something, or did you attack your own city and then get kicked out by the British?

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PricklyPete said:
This was my kneejerk response...but the more I thought of it...I think it is the mounties...they are a formidable force.
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But how far north can they go without freezing to death? Besides, almost all Canadians live within like 200 miles of the US border, most of which is flat. I see no escape route.
 
Us Canadians prefer you keep your crime, gang war, poverty and racism south of the border. We don't want it here. Thx anyway.
 
Slick5150 said:
OP, demonstrating the emphasis we put on a good education in American History in this country firsthand! Well done.
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This thread reminds me that many Canadians were chuckling when Richard Nixon, referring to the deteriorating situation in Vietnam, said he had no intention of becoming "the first American President to lose a war".

Although one can easily argue that the result was a "draw" and in fact always was a mere sidelight to the major power struggles in Europe, American forces did fail in their original aim to invade, occupy and annex the British colony on their northern border. The best result is that both countries recognized that war was a lousy way to settle disputes and set out to resolve problems in much better ways thereafter.

As a small sidelight, I recall this bit of info from later in the 19th century. The four British colonies in what is now Canada met and ultimately formed a new nation called the Dominion of Canada under a constitution called the British North America Act passed by the British Parliament who owned the colonies. This was in 1867. In high school history classes we were told that one of the motivators for this was that the US had just come out of the American Civil War, leaving it with a rather large and reasonably well-equipped and -trained military force based primarily in the northern states. North of the border this made many extremely nervous that American minds might turn their thoughts once again to "liberating" those poor British colonists up north, and a formal banding together into one nation would reduce that threat by making their unified stance quite plain.
 
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