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   >> > Otherwise we might pull another 1812 on ya!   
   >> I'm pretty sure we won that one, along with the Pig Wars & 54/40. . .   
   > That one is a funny one.  Canada can claim being a winner because they kept   
   > the US south of the border.  The US can claim being a winner because we   
   > defeated the British in the south.  The British appear to have lost on both   
   > fronts.  :)   
      
   Nah, we didn't lose -- we owned half of yas for a while (straight down the    
   Mississippie corridor to the Gulf of Mexico); we didn't lose anything of ours -   
   - you lost a huge part of yours for some time; we gave it back to settle things   
   at the end & get rid of a bunch of our French.   
      
   >> We even made you keep a bunch of our unwanteds (French Acadians, now called   
   > "   
   >> juns")   
   > That may have been the biggest revenge of all!  :O   
      
   Nah, that was why we "won"! ;)    
      
   We didn't need all that extra land we had -- we just took it to show we could.   
      
   &, yes, I am aware you subtly put forth that the war was between the USA & the    
   British, 55 years before "Canada" formed; but we used the term Canada already    
   (Upper & Lower Canada for what's now Quebec & Ontario)   
      
   The men who chased yours to the Gulf wore British uniforms, but called    
   themselves Canadians(in English)   
      
   Just joking about, mate!   
      
   Let's call it a tie, so out of 3 wars with youse, Canada won 2.5!   
      
   Pretty good odds.   
      
   Your generals have been planning another ever since, but realized it would be    
   impossible to win, so dropped them all.   
      
   I have a copy of a White Paper drawn up by some 5-star generals in the 1990s    
   covering an exploration of a full frontal attack on British Columbia (north   
   of  your Washington State) which concluded it to be unfeasible, & that doing   
   so  would result in too many losses (men, ordnance, & reputation) to the US.   
      
   The older plans to invade Canada's centre are public domain now, & likewise    
   were rtuled unfeasible.   
      
   It's better we stay friends.     
      
   You get decent lumber, ores, & fish -- we get paid for same.   
      
   We get some not far away places to have a sunny & warm winter vacation,   
   paying  for it, of course. . .   
      
   BC offers some of the best sdkiing this side of the Alps. . .   
      
   It's betterthis way -- as brothers (but in the wrestling match that is our    
   sibling rivalry, we're bigger & on top.)   
      
   That's where Uncle Sam came from; we had a general na,ed Samuel some thing-or-   
   other & he ordered you to "say 'uncle.'"!   
      
   & like in your anthem, you romanticised losing a major battle & used it as a    
   rallying cry for all Americans ever since, to take up arms & fight, fight,    
   fight!   
      
   Best to yas, mate!   
      
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