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Originally Posted by Graebarde
You know the BEST thing that came from the war of 1812? It was the LAST war between the US and Commonwealth countries that I know of. (Oh yeah there were skirmishs in the PNW I guess) While there was no formalization until thirty years later, 1848 or something, we have been 'friends' for over 160 years, with the longest nonmilitarized boundry in the world.
Yes we have our differences, but we are so much alike it stinks sometimes eh?  I grew up 60 miles from the Canadian line. Had I joined the closest active duty army unit, I would have been in the Canadian army. |
Seems a bit of tension lingered on up until the Civil War period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Affair
Its also interesting to note that America developed a war strategy to fight a war against the British Empire centred on an invasion of Canada after WW1 which was active until the late 1930's. Britain didn't have a counter plan at the time as they didn't think such a war was winneable. Canada did formulate a defensive plan of its own but didn't think they could have realy stopped America at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red