And remember, Canada is defended by a navy which went out and bought submarines with faulty wiring.
... from the British.
Never trust the Brits when it comes to electrical. As anyone who has ever owned a Triumph can attest.
And remember, Canada is defended by a navy which went out and bought submarines with faulty wiring.
... from the British.
Never trust the Brits when it comes to electrical. As anyone who has ever owned a Triumph can attest.
No, I'm not.
Many British citizens who were supposedly Americans were NOT Americans. They were using FORGED papers. In fact, this is the case in the overwhelming majority of cases of supposed "Americans" being press-ganged into the Royal Navy. The vast majority were Brits trying to pass themselves off as Yanks.
And even those Brits who HAD become American citizens were still targeted for impressment into the Royal Navy because the British did NOT recognise naturalised American status, even if they had possession of citizenship certificates. The criterion was: "Once an Englishman, always an Englishman."
Though the American government repeatedly protested the practice, British Foreign Secretary Lord Harrowby contemptuously wrote in 1804, "The pretention advanced by Mr. [Secretary of State James] Madison that the American flag should protect every individual on board of a merchant ship is too extravagent to require any serious refutation."
The only difference between being a British "subject" and a British "citizen" is a word. Other than that there is no difference between the two. A "subject" doesn't automatically get less rights than a "citizen".
British "subjects" in the 18th and 19th centuries were the freest people on Earth, and were much freer than their French "citizen" neighbours over the Channel.
When the peace treaty between the two nations was signed in Ghent it was the British who got what they wanted: the status quo, the way things were before the war started. Not a single American aim was even discussed, so it seems as though the authorities sided with the British. For this reason, it can be said that the British won the War of 1812.
We won... you lost. The pain still resonates deep it seems.
If you won, I'd live in a state not a province. True, the Brits helped a little bit, which is what made it not just an ***-kicking, but a royal ***-kicking. :lol:
And I'd live in a province not a state if the Brits won if you want to play that game.
So it was an azz kicking by the fledgling US.
The pain obviously resonates throughout Britain to this day.
What do you mean "the Brits helped a little bit" ! LMAO
Oh no... you're not one of those who REALLY think Canadians burned the White House are you?
Simple question. Can you give me the route Canadians took to Washington DC?
I'm just quoting the song. We all sit around and sing it on Saturday nights along with other Canadian classics like Barrett's Privateers, Home for a Rest, the Good Ol Hockey Game and I Wish They All Could Be Manitoba Girls.
He was in Bermuda getting some sun and healing.Yes British Adm. Cockburn was there as an adviser to British Gen. Ross. He did not end up being pickled in rum like Ross did though.
I have no doubt!
Still working on the route? Get Historical would you!
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
And some of 'em are still crying. hey Eagle Smack--we smacked your eagle.
AS for burning down the Whitehouse, it was actually worse than that--they also defiled it. My great-great-great-great grandfather was on one of the hovercrafts that landed, and left a big steaming double-coiler right in the middle of the Oval Office.
Oh no... you're not one of those who REALLY think Canadians burned the White House are you?
Simple question. Can you give me the route Canadians took to Washington DC?
And things were very historical?! lmao... those are words in an actual song?
And some of 'em are still crying. hey Eagle Smack--we smacked your eagle.
AS for burning down the Whitehouse, it was actually worse than that--they also defiled it. My great-great-great-great grandfather was on one of the hovercrafts that landed, and left a big steaming double-coiler right in the middle of the Oval Office.