Kasz216 on 27 June 2009
| Rath said: I really don't say how you can claim the Americans won because the British stopped supporting the Indians. Its a fairly slim claim. The British stopped doing that because it was politically useful, after the war of 1812 they saw America as a useful market more than an enemy. In any case you forgot one of the seemingly main aims of America, to successfully invade Canada. "The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent." Essentially I don't think America or Britain won or lost, I think the Canadians won and the Indians lost and everybody else came out about neutral. |
It was a goal after declaring war. Not a reason for the war.
