Sorry I forgot to put his up yesterday – cross posted from RenounceUScitizenship
“War is failure”
– Once heard Colin Powell requote this truism
June 18/12 – 200 years ago today the US attacked Canada in the #warof1812 – thestar.com/news/books/art… Laxers’s perspective thestar.com/opinion/editor…
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) June 18, 2012
Today is an important day in Canadian History. Exactly 200 years ago today, the United States under President Madison attacked what was then British North America. The outcome of the war depends on which country’s historians you listen to. But what is clear is that – after three years, the United States failed in its military invasion of it’s British neighbour to the North. In other words U.S. expansion stopped at the 49th parallel – making the existence of Canada possible. Continue reading
