Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Robert Hailman wrote:

>> > I admit it is a pretty stupid name, how about the North American War?
>>
>> Because it wasn't fought in just North America.  What North Americans
>> call the "War of 1812" was in fact probably more of an extension of the
>> third worldwar, the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), after the Seven Years' War
>> (1756-1763) and the War of American Independence (1775-1783), the
>> first and second worldwars, respectively.
>>
>Please explain to me how the War of American Independence is a world
>war, I'm not aware of any fighting in far off lands.
Presumably it counts as a world war because the antagonists (the British
+ various mercenary groups vs. the colonists + the French) were from both
sides of the Atlantic.  Same with the Seven Year's War.  I've never heard
this use of the term "world war", but I guess that these wars were no
different from the First World War and the Korean War in this respect.
I suppose the only war that *truly* deserves the designation "world war"
is World War Two, since this is the only war which was ever fought on
a truly world-wide scale, with participants from all the major continents,
and battles throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania--not to mention all
the major oceans and seas.

Matt.