On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:43:47 -0700, "Phxbrd"
Dumbbuttes!!! 4143On January 8, 1815, American forces, under General Jackson, decisively defeat the British forces trying to capture New Orleans. The battle, which takes...
"U.S. forces were not ready for war, and American hopes of conquering Canada collapsed in the campaigns of 1812 and 1813. The initial plan called for a three-pronged offensive: from Lake Champlain to Montreal; across the Niagara frontier; and into Upper Canada from Detroit. The attacks were uncoordinated, however, and all failed. In the West, Gen. William HULL surrendered Detroit to the British in August 1812; on the Niagara front, American troops lost the Battle of Queenston Heights in October; and along Lake Champlain the American forces withdrew in late November without seriously engaging the enemy."
"Meanwhile, the British gradually tightened a blockade around America's coasts, ruining American trade, threatening American finances, and exposing the entire coastline to British attack."
"American attempts to invade Canada in 1813 were again mostly unsuccessful."
"American resistance to the diversionary attack in Chesapeake Bay was so weak that the British, after winning the Battle of Bladensburg (August 24), marched into Washington, D.C., and burned most of the
So to summerise, the Americans decided to invade Canada, but instead got unpleasant womanslapped, their country invaded and their capitol burned to the ground. It's a bit like your humiliating defeat in Vietnam, innit.
