Canada, U.S. Military Involvement in
Canada, U.S. Military Involvement in.“The undefended border” is the cliché that still governs Canada–United States military relations. Most clichés are true, but for most of North American history not this one. Before American independence, the French and their native allies in Québec warred against New York and New England from the early seventeenth century to the fall of New France in 1760 in the French and Indian War. Congress's project for 1775, during the Revolutionary War, was an attack on Canada and, though Montreal fell, the venture failed. Again in the War of 1812, American forces attacked Canada, the fighting especially fierce along the Niagara frontier. The resulting stalemate meant Canadian survival. The Rush‐Bagot Agreement of 1817 put limits on the number of naval vessels Britain and the United States could...
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