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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Was Canada even a Country in 1812? Wasn't in.... French controlled? Anyway...
Technically it was the British Army who burned the White House, I know Canadians like to pretend it's the same people, but that would be like saying we were all basically brits, other than 99% of the force fighting us actually came from England. They also occupied what was then DC and they burnt the contents within the White house (which was empty other than slaves) and the building still stood, in retaliation for Americans burning down non-military buildings (like houses) in Toronto.
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Yah, I've heard it all too. One of the reasons of the war was the conscription or impressment of American Sailors into the British Navy. Did the US want some land up north, absolutely. Almost got it too. But the total rewrite of how Canada won the war of 1812, absolutely wrong.