Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Robert Hailman wrote:

> In the American War of Independence, the US was the
> agressor force, and they conquered land held previously by the British.
Of course, from the American point of view, they were resisting legal and
extra-legal aggression from the British.

> The War of 1812, as I see it, was a typical war involving one country
> attemping to conquer another for its own purposes.
Fair enough, though the conquest of Canada was only one of the reasons
for which war was declared.

> Canada had no War of
> Independence, because British Parliament passed the British North America
> act in 1867 declaring Canada to be an independent member of the
> Commonwealth, a title it still holds today.
Legally you are right.  But it was 1812 that made it abundantly clear
that Canada was a separate country from the U.S., just as 1776 made it
abundantly clear that the U.S. was a separate country from Britain.  In
both cases, a previously disputed question was settled, for good, by the sword.

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