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Originally Posted by abadfish
Why do Canadians, in defense of their country, always provide a list of inventions and actors? And then claim they were responsible for the burning of Washington? I would give credit to the BRITISH. Without intervention the Canadians would have eventually been defeated. The burning of Washington was in retaliation for the American army destroying the Canadian capitol.
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In reality, Canada wasn't even Canada at the time... so to speak. So yeah, it was the British all the way on that one.
However, Canada (as it was) did hold off the mighty US from just walking in and taking over for quite some time. Something that I'm sure was quite a shock to the US at the time.
It's not nearly as wonderful as many Canadians make it seem, but had the roles been reversed, I'm sure that Americans would be proud and boast about it as well.