The war of 1812

Actually, the BRITISH burned it down. I doubt there were that many Canadians serving pre-confederation that considered themselves "Canadian" and instead probably called themselves "British" or "English"

Fuck That! We Burned That Fucker Down!

Your education system really let you down

well... more than half of the British forces were made up of Canadian militia.. and yes.. they were considering themselves Canadians...

Tipicall AMerican

LOL, I like your style

Are you retarded? The Americans were fighting the BRITISH and we WON. Only war we lost is Viet Nam.

LOL, Sure buddy

Let's get technical then. There was no confederation. The French considered themselves "Le Canadien" perhaps, but the folks in upper canada were mostly british loyalists. NOT seperatists. And thus pre confederation - BRITISH.

Canadians didn't even discover fire until 1934

Basketball was our invention...so was Peter Jennings...shall I go on?

well, there were alot of americans, british and French living in Upper and lower Canada... who knows what they were calling themselves..
But what is known is a "greater" sense of nationalism started after 1812 in Canada .. pre confederation...

I wouldn't exactly consider Korea a win

Because we left with our tail between our legs, it was not a war, but a police action. If we had won, it would have been a war.

WAAAAAAAAAA cock fight between canada and US ...

I'm canadian. US wins hands down.

ya want em both back....please take em along with brian adams, matt ramsey, and that whiney canadian bitch singer whose name I have blocked out

while yer at it take back alex trebek

My girlfriend was born and raised in California.. she should have her Canadian citizenship next year. She's always surprised at the way she learned things about American history. How they don't really ever tell you things that make America look bad. All that stuff gets whitewashed from the texts. Especially about American 'Manifest Destiny' even back then, taking land from Mexico and trying to take land from Canada. But we consistently beat you guys back and more. We were nice though, we gave most of it back.

Hey, I got an ideal come and try it now. Now sneaking into a rest room and setting a trash can on fire is cheating.

Let's not get into how the US wages war.

Only in the U.S.A. can a war that you started and in which you failed to acheive your objectives be called a victory!

now I have that classical piece in my head lol

Just look below


"tipicall" I think you mean typical.

manifest destiny, while a horribly bloody and intolerant policy helped make this country a dominant world power.

in the long run it was a good thing.

Yeah, just remember we got you first ;)

The British and Canadians had long sought revenge on the United States for the destruction they had caused on the capital of Upper Canada at York after the Battle of York in 1813. The naval commander, George Cockburn, wrote that he hoped the destruction of the new republic's capital might demoralize the enemy as well.

What planet are you living on. America has lost several wars.
Korea - Nothing settled there.
Vietnam - Nothing settled there.
Grenada - Wasn't too great either. But ok, we can give them this one.
Gulf wars part two isn't going to well either.

Translation:
American military isn't all that and a bag of chips.

I'm glad someone noticed that.

thats some funny shit there buddy

i knocked the white house down with my enormous cock, none of you have a clue wtf you're talking about.

No where in the song does it mention Canadians.

Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, I see'd Mars Jackson walkin down the street
talkin? to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafayette
He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee
and the pirate said he?d help us drive the British in the sea.

The French said Andrew, you?d better run,
for Packingham?s a comin? with a bullet in his gun.
Old Hickory said he didn?t give a dang,
he?s gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Packingham.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we looked down the river and we see'd the British come,
and there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring
while we stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
if we didn't fire a musket til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire til we see'd their faces well,
then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave a yell.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down,
so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We?ll march back home but we?ll never be content
till we make Old Hickory the people?s President.
And every time we think about the bacon and the beans,
we?ll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin,
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Just so you all know.

Your "WORLD HISTORY" you should never learn from your own nations textbooks. The States, Canada, The British, or any other.

We are all guilty of self-serving history texts, every one of us with our own spin on how it went.

I agree with you for sure, but living and seeing both Canadian and American school systems, the American system is WAY more self serving and full of "America is always the Good Guy" type of propaganda. From an early age. My son has gone to school here three years and I've already had to set him straight on things, especially history. And lets not talk geography. When I see a map that has nothing but the Continental US, Hawaii off to the South west and Alaska up there all by itself as if it isn't connected to anything. No wonder chldren grow up believing they are an island. They almost have to be in College to learn anything about the rest of the world.