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**Mick** · 11-06-2018, 22:07

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Originally Posted by ianch99

and miss all the fun, no chance!

Fake News! The British burned down the White House. Trump is an idiot* ..

* In your opinion.

P.S They burned it down and Canada was the reason why/Cause. I will not back down from this correct assertion.

The Historical facts are....

U.S Attacked part of Canada.... (During the time in which Canada was part of and under British rule/territory).

In retaliation around 1812, Brits burned down the White House. Canada was under British rule from 1763 – 1867.

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In truth, this is probably a case where the “fake news media” is being too hard on Trump. Canadian forces were belligerents in the war, and not on the American side. Nitpicking about whether those forces were specifically involved in the attack on Washington is a little bit beside the point.

So what happened? Did Canada burn the White House?

The centerpiece of American military strategy was a plan to invade and conquer a significant portion of what is now Canada.

At the time, however, there was no such country as Canada. Instead, the territory in question was two separate British colonies — Upper Canada, roughly corresponding to modern-day Ontario, and Lower Canada, roughly corresponding to modern-day Quebec.

American leaders assumed that this conquest would be a cakewalk (Jefferson called it “a matter of marching”), but the United States lacked a professional military and had essentially no local support. A large share of English-speaking Canadians were, at the time, Loyalist émigrés who had fled the United States during the Revolutionary War. French-speaking Canadians, meanwhile, though not necessarily huge fans of British rule were largely conservative and Catholic — distrusting both the American republic and its revolutionary ally in France.

The various invasion forces were beaten back rather easily, and Britain was then able to use its dominant sea power to mount a successful military campaign in the Chesapeake Bay area. This amphibious assault managed to free thousands of enslaved African Americans and to briefly capture the city of Washington and burn the White House.

From a British point of view, however, the essential problem of the war was that the empire had no real capacity to mount a durable occupation of American territory — territory that was vast, distant from London, and peripheral to the empire’s main interest in beating France. The Treaty of Ghent that ultimately ended the war was fairly favorable to the United States, especially on the impressment issue, and featured the British agreeing to return various pieces of territory in Maine and around the Mississippi River that they’d seized during the war. The United States, meanwhile, obviously didn’t succeed in taking over Canada.

In terms of the specifics of Trump’s contention, it does not appear that Canadians were literally involved in the capture of Washington. But Canadians did fight in the war, they fought on the British side, and Canada-related issues were very central to the conflict. The nation of Canada, however, did not exist at the time, and it was decades before the US gave up on the idea of conquering Canadian territory and incorporating it.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/7/1743499...ouse-burn-1812