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Never heard of the war of 1812, have you?

Or the Fenian raids?

Ann Coulter would be soooo proud of you.
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Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

 

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:02:21 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:


Hmm, Canada wasn't even a country then.  It was a British colony.


The Fenian raids?  Irish trying to get the Brits out of Ireland.
Hardly the USA.  And they started while Canada was still a colony of
Britain.


Your history teacher must be proud of you.

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are so beautiful, elegant, and logical    
that Nature is flattered and acquiesces    

 


Picky picky ;-)  Still the same place, and the same peoples.

Indeed, if you hadn't deployed WMDs (torching towns in Niagara) we
probably would be US states by now.  [Up until then it was primarily
British regulars and their Indian allies you were fighting.  After that,
the Canadians got pissed off too.]
 

[By attacking Canada from the US.  Makes sense somehow I guess.]


Started.  Continued until afterwards, with the US government continuing
to turn a blind eye to it.
 

I think they were.

We're still waiting for the repayment over the property you stole from our
ancestors in the late 1700s <evil grin>.
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It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

 

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:45:59 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:


So we kicked the Brits, Indians AND Canadians.  :)  And probably had
one tied behind our backs to make it fair.
 

There's no accounting for the reasoning of the Irish.


True, but still just a few Irish, not the USA.  
 

Take an IOU?  :)

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Science seeks to make theories that        
are so beautiful, elegant, and logical    
that Nature is flattered and acquiesces    

 


If you had kicked the Brits, Indians, and Canadians, we would be a state.

You lost that war, remember?  Oh, I forgot, the Americans claim that they
won that one.

Militarily, we had the edge at the end (we held parts of the US).
Politically, it was a draw (the Brits gave those parts back [+]).

But, from the perspective of what the intent of the American invaders _was_
(take over Canada to "free" us from the British oppression, which we happened
to _like_ ;-), you blew it big time.


We'll have to take the advice of the US mint: In God We Trust, all others pay
cash. ;-)

[+] Well, from another perspective, we won that part too - we made you take
Detroit
back ;-)
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Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.