Folks down there still think ya won in 1812?

Dollar at par and now this:


http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b294d588-07a0-43c3-bbd4-09e361b8f5fe&k=0


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Paul

Great article, Paul!

Ask Blake about the Battle of Chalmette.

Yeah, we lost every battle in the early part of the war, but the real victory was repelling the British at New Orleans thanks to Andy Jackson and his mountain men. He took it upon himself to march South as he believed New Orleans as critical when Madison didn't. Madison turned down Jackson's offers to help in the war and never called upon him for help.Jackson had an abrasive character and rubbed the politicians in Washington the wrong way, plus they looked down on him because he married his wife before her divorce was final. Old Hickory saved us from having to drive on the wrong side of the road.

"It's been 200 years: time to move on."

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Lets see....

The US attacks a foreign country with intent to take it over.

Three years later, they have not succeeded in their quest and give up and declare victory?

Has anybody told Bush about this concept?

Yer lucky Peter.... We had no use for New Orleans anyway..

Paul

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The part that bothers me is that our politicians (Canadian) appear to be appeasing the Americans by not taking a firm stand on our Victory. We are to stinking polite sometimes.

We are like little children on a playground always appeasing the bully.

We won.

But to our American brothers, look at the brightside, if you invade today it'll be over in about 15 minutes (it would be 1 minute, but you have to allow time for the invading army to stop at Tim Hortons for a coffee and donut.)

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Clearly you Canadians just weren't ready for us Americans to "liberate" you from the British! (-;

Good article, we got Drummond Island and Fort Drummond out of the deal,by proposing what is known as false Detour channel as the best route to the Soo. Which it is not.

Anyway the great historian...Johnny Horton explained it best in his epic ..."the Battle of New Orleans"...nuff said.

Peter, it was the pirate Lafette who was also very instrumental in helping Jackson,although he was to be arrested and hanged for piracy by the USA. He was offered a better deal by the Brits to work for them, but he turned them down. He went to his grave thinking he was the real hero in the battle and of saving the US from the Brits.The British showed him their plans for the USA when we were to be defeated.March up the Mississippi, divide and conquer. It was to be the end of the fledgling USA. They wanted their colonies back.Soooo...after the Brits complete and ugly defeat at New Orleans,.....and the war of 1812......

You mean we could have let the Brits have New Orleans but we actually fought for it instead? Can you imagine Ray Nagin as a citizen of the Crown and Governer-General of the Commonwealth of New Orleans?

Would our northern neighbors like to take over control of New Orleans?

You got any beads, beaver pelts or anything else to put on the table. Really, it wouldn't take much at this point. We'll throw in Ray's school buses as part of the bargin.

Paul: Conclusive evidence we won: there are NO legally required French road signs in N.O., a bastion of French Canadian expatriates! :D

what about artic soveriegnty? another frontier of vast resources to be plundered

well when the Brits acquired Canada, the remaining French that wished to leave were sent to New Orleans to live since that was another French colony one the Brits did not want and they be came know a Cajuns,,,which was the busted up term for Canadians in the 1700's, just like the N thing was the busted up word for the "Spanish" then, French, Arab, Morocan, and English (slavers) term for the cargo from Africa in the 1600's.

Do you want the rest that stayed? I hear that some of them want to leave confederation. New Orleans can have them.

It is obvious that the Brits won because a sort of modified English is still spoken in the US.
If it weren't for the Brits the White House would still be purple!!!!!
Was it actually purple? Anyone know the original pre-fire colour ?

....purple????...my memory is kinda hazy...

Yeah I forgot to mention Jean Lafitte. He sure got a raw deal. Thing is though, the French had to save us in the Revolutionary war, and a French buccaneer saved us in 1812. Twice for the French. Twice for us, WWI and WWII. Now they are on their own. Even Steven.

White, never was purple.

White, Wyatt, White....SHHHHHH

"purple"..."hazy"....sheese,... if ya gotta explain the joke.....no wonder I drive a Triumph.

I did a look around and the info that I found claims the white house was always called the white house.

In reality it was a whitish color from the mixture used to protect the sandstone form the weather. According to this article slave labor was used to build the capital of the land of the free. Guess they were on a tight budget!!

When construction was finished the porous sandstone walls were coated with a mixture of lime, rice glue, casein, and lead, giving the house its familiar color and name.

Construction began with the laying of the cornerstone on October 13, 1792. A diary kept by the District of Columbia building commissioner records that the footings for the main residence were dug by slaves. The foundations were also built by slave labor. Much of the other work on the house was performed by immigrants, many not yet with citizenship. The sandstone walls were erected by Scottish immigrants, as were the high relief rose and garland decorations above the north entrance and the "fish scale" pattern beneath the pediments of the window hoods. Much of the brick and plaster work was produced by Irish and Italian immigrants. The initial construction took place over a period of eight years, at a reported cost of $232,371.83 ($2.4 million in 2005 dollars). Although not yet completed, the White House was ready for occupancy on or about November 1, 1800.

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