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To: LindyBill who wrote (107165)	4/1/2005 5:01:53 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793889

Bill, This was War of 1812 timeframe. I was surprised that I couldn't google anything on it. Google is biased by its user base - which is significantly American. If you searched on a Canadian site you would find different results and views. Canada teaches they won the War of 1812. I found this funny when I moved to Canada as a kid - because Canada as a country didn't exist until 55 years later. But when you get down to it - they have a point. The US retaliated against British aggression by attacking their interests in colonies that later became Canada. The settlers in those colonies had seen a big influx from the American Revolutionary War (the Loyalists) and the defense of the Canadian colonies helped establish Canada's national identity. While technically a draw - the US also won big. In a strategic sense we won because the Treaty of Ghent was Britain's acceptance of an independent America. John