What the heck Canada! I thought you were nice!

"Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito" (breakfast-burrito) 08/22/2013 at 11:58 • Filed to: None

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I thought we were friends!

desertdog5051 > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 08/22/2013 at 12:17

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In actuality, it was the British not the Canadians. Canada, as it was to become, did not exist at that time. They take great pride in that story but it is not true. (I guess they have to have something to gloat about.) They are still the stepchildren of Britain. So, fuck you Canucks.

Disclaimer: I have some great Canadian friends, but facts is facts.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_o…

Casper > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 08/22/2013 at 12:18

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There is a little more to it than that, but it is a piece of history people forget. The other tidbit people don't seem to know is that before WWI, the US had drawn up plans to invade Canada again in order to go after the British. In both cases the Canadians were simply in the middle of a fight between the US and GB, but if that plan had been executed, the US very likely would have gained control of Canada.

Fortunately everyone got distracted by a silly spat that become WWI. After the US stepped in to help the Allies (France, Great Briton, Russian Empire) it suddenly made them all friends because they had someone else to shoot at. An interesting detail people also forget is that Japan joined the Allies with the US in this go around, but went with Germany in round 2, which didn't pan out for them.

minardi > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 08/22/2013 at 12:28

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Seriously, thank you Harper.

Dunnik > desertdog5051 08/23/2013 at 01:32

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The army that attacked Washington was an entirely British force composed of regular regiments, sent directly from overseas. No Native, English or French Canadian militia units took part - though they did in most of the other battles.

Dunnik > Casper 08/23/2013 at 01:41

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The Duke of Wellington - the guy who beat Napoleon at Waterloo - was asked by the British Gov't sometime in the 1830's or 40's to come up with a plan to protect Canada from a US invasion. He basically said you'd have to build some Maginot Line style fortress belt and put every man in the British Army on it and even then, it may not work.

He estimated the costs at, like, eleventy zillion dollars (whatever the figure was, it was a stupendous amount) and so, for the next 30-40 years or so it was (secret) British policy to abandon Canada to its inevitable fate if the US were to invade.

Casper > Dunnik 08/23/2013 at 11:11

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I hadn't heard that, but it makes sense. Stopping an industrialized US invasion would have been an impossibility after the late 1800s due to the size of the military and the tech.

Defending against a superior enemy doesn't really work when you have to defend such a massive border with so few people.

Dunnik > Casper 08/23/2013 at 11:37

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The British were also aware of the difficulties of keeping an army in being at the end of a several thousand mile long supply chain, even assuming they could maintain naval superiority - which was one of the reasons they lost the Revolutionary War.