On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> they did fight a war a few decades later and the americans got their >> butts collectively handed to them. >> > > Yeah, but we won when it counted!
Last I checked Canada is still not a part of the US. That is what the entire war of 1812 was about. When the treaty of Ghent was signed, the British controlled more US territory than the US controlling Canadian territory. The American merchant navy was in tatters, the US navy was up on blocks. The American economy was shattered because of the lack of trade with Britain, and the government was in worse debt than now. There was a movement within Britain to continue the war and eliminate the "American heresy". [snip] > > Oh there were a lot of what-ifs that could have caused the revolution to > fail. It's still a miracle that we won that war. YOu talk about very > different treatment of the colonies...do you see any such treatment that > could have resulted in the colonies not attempting another revolution? > > It was inevitable, wasn't it? Its hard to say. There could have been accommodations and the eventual change in status from a set of colonies to a Dominion, very much like what happened in Upper and Lower Canada. At the end of the Revolutionary war the idea was that it was too much democracy that was the problem. So the BNA colonies representative legislatures were cut back severely. It wasn't until the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837 and the destruction of the Family Compacts that a more representative legislature in the BNA Colonies were reestablished. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350129 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
