What and miss the fun? It just shows that Canadians can be as nationalistic and bullheaded as we Americans.
I would say that while Canadian annexation by the US is not a given without a War of 1812; no war makes this outcome far more likely.
Benjamin
It is difficult to find a Canadian history textbook taught in schools that treats the War of 1812 in a detached and professional manner. The worst of the textbooks are quite jingoistic (for the British, not for the Canadians) leaving the impression that the Americans were evil and that the British put them in their place. One of my history textbooks outright says that Britain could have but was not interested in conquering the USA and rather decided to spare the Americans in order to build a friendship with them.
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