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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: our neighbors
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 12:47:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 12:47:49 1986
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In article <1004@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:

>> Canada was English territory at that point.  The U.S. invaded Canadian
>> territory, and were driven out; England invaded U.S. territory, and was
>> driven out.  I don't think it is accurate to say either side really won
>
>But there should be a "then" after the semicolon.
>
>In other words, the U.S. tried to take over Canada, and didn't.
>The forces in Canada tried not to be taken over, and weren't.
>Conclusion: Britain (not England, please) won, and the U.S. lost.
>
>Could be.  Or maybe India would have been the first, and the rest following!
>
>Mark Brader, Toronto, Canada
>P.S. Toronto (then York) was burned by the Americans.
>     I think it was in retaliation for this that the British burned
>     Washington (sparing the Patent Office) -- and thus led to the

It is very interesting to see history from someone knowledgeable from the
other side. I wish there were much more of this sort of information on this
net particularly from people from a much wider range of countries.

richard foy, redondo beach, california, us