[Arctic_Menace]

Tman1 Tman1:

Well said Virgil. Apparently only the historically unaware and ignorant seem to keep playing the "you weren't a country, therefore you didn't do anything" card and it seems to be a large portion saying that is the Americans. There's a complex if I ever heard one and denying the people who fought that war their due rights is wrong and ignorant. I'm sure the non-existant American country that fought in the revolution didn't do a damn thing apparently because as they say, "you weren't a country then, therefore you didn't do anything". Works both ways no?

Zing!

[Arrow]

Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:

Tman1 Tman1:

Well said Virgil. Apparently only the historically unaware and ignorant seem to keep playing the "you weren't a country, therefore you didn't do anything" card and it seems to be a large portion saying that is the Americans. There's a complex if I ever heard one and denying the people who fought that war their due rights is wrong and ignorant. I'm sure the non-existant American country that fought in the revolution didn't do a damn thing apparently because as they say, "you weren't a country then, therefore you didn't do anything". Works both ways no?

Zing!

That's gonna leave a mark on the elephant hide.

[Anastasios]

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[Public_Domain]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Yeah--never thought of that. 200 years since we handed the Yanks their asses!

We should all show up in Washington with torches and just stand there.

All Intimidating-like.

[Public_Domain]

Arrow Arrow:

Well, it isn't like April 27th is exactly a date to remember

The White House was burnt down on August 25th, 1814.

[Mustang1]

Anastasios Anastasios:

Just wanted to through my opinion in here, but didn’t we technically win the war of 1812.
Cause think of it, America attacked us hoping for Canada (British Colony at the time) to be absorbed into their country, and also to show Britain that they were their own country.
True America gained its independence but I bet if Great Britain wasn’t so exhausted after the Napoleonic Wars, or even was occupied by one at the time the USA would have been crushed even further.
But Canada pushed back America, back into the heart of their own lands, and at the war’s end America lost more than they gained (true both sides lost much, it being a war and all).
But i think Canada gained a bigger and more devasting victory, with some statistics from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

United States
•Regular Army:
— 7,000 (at start of war);
— 35,800 (at war's end)
•Rangers: 3,049
•Militia: 458,463 *
•United States Navy &
•United States Marines
(at start of war):
— Frigates: 6
— Other vessels: 14
Native allies: 125 Choctaw, (unknown others) [1]

Casualties and losses
2,260 killed in action.
4,505 wounded.
Approx. 17,000 died from disease (estimated).[3]


British Empire
•British Army:
— 5,200 (at start of war);
— 48,160 (at war's end)
•Provincial Regulars: 10,000
•Provincial Militia: 4,000
•Royal Navy &
•Royal Marines:
— Ships of the Line: 11
— Frigates: 34
— Other vessels: 52
•Provincial Marine‡:
— (unknown)
Native allies: 10,000[2]

Casualties and losses
1,600 killed in action.
3,679 wounded.
3,321 died from disease.

Didn't you just post this on a similar thread?

[EyeBrock]

He did, another thread from 2008.

YAWN.

[fifeboy]

Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:

Who else here loves the song by the Arrogant Worms called "The War of 1812"?

[Jabberwalker]

Canadaka Canadaka:

I was wondering if some people could shed some light on the War of 1812 between British North America(Canada) and the United States. Its been a long time since we studyed it in school, and we didnt go into much detail. I do hear that we burn't the WHitehouse, and one of the great Canadian Leaders Was Isaac Brock, who died in battle. I also know with the help of the BNA Natives we kicked some american ass.

Thats 1 and 0 for Canada I beleive

There weren't any Canadians involved in the burning of Washington. There was a long and very dirty war composed of small but intense military engagements along the St. Lawrence river, lake Ontario, the Niagara Peninsula and Lake Erie. It ended in a stalemate but it resulted in villages and crops being burned on both sides of the border in a tit-for-tat war of attrition that really defined a previously vague border.