Happy Anniversary, you goddamn rebels.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

This is how we dealt with insurgents:



At least up here, we're taught TRUE history.

[mvscal]

Who is we? You clowns were hiding behind King Georgie's piss soaked nappies.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

If it not for the fact that His Majesty's forces were tied up in Europe, you'd be speaking proper English today.

We went easy on you. Pipe down, intransigent scum.

[mvscal]

If it not for the fact that His Majesty's forces were tied up in Europe, you'd be speaking proper English today.

Wrong. We squared off against Wellington's finest vets from the Peninsular War at New Orleans and butchered them including the British commander, Sir Edward 'Eddy-Baby' Pakenham, who was Wellington's brother in law.

We got what we wanted which was for you gits to fuck right off.

[Dr_Phibes]

:?

That's strange. Lambert's men somehow found the strength to pivot at Biloxi and rampage through Alabama after being 'butchered'. A minor tactical victory made even more irrelevant by the fact the war was already over.

[Truman]

Party on, Garth...

Once Britain and The Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814, France and Britain became allies. Britain ended the trade restrictions and the impressment of American sailors, thus removing two more causes of the war. After two years of warfare, the major causes of the war had disappeared. Neither side had a reason to continue or a chance of gaining a decisive success that would compel their opponents to cede territory or advantageous peace terms. As a result of this stalemate, the two countries signed the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814. News of the peace treaty took two months to reach the U.S., during which fighting continued. The war fostered a spirit of national unity and an "Era of Good Feelings" in the U.S., as well as in Canada. It opened a long era of peaceful relations between the United States and the British Empire.

I suppose, domestically, a concern remains that you all might send your jet to press matters, but I'm thinking not...

[mvscal]

:?

That's strange. Lambert's men somehow found the strength to pivot at Biloxi and rampage through Alabama after being 'butchered'.

Lambert? Who? He was what? The fourth ranking officer with the three senior officers dead or wounded?

"Somehow found the strength"? He was reinforced and realized that New Orleans was still out of the question so he pounced on some pissant fort in Mobile Bay. Whoopdee frickin doo. More Americans were killed and wounded in Chicago last weekend than that meaningless skirmish.

[Dr_Phibes]

The war fostered a spirit of national unity and an "Era of Good Feelings" in the U.S., as well as in Canada.

I'd question that, it gave way to a sort of paranoia north of the border. Immigration was closed, the colony didn't want anyone with wild southern ideas coming up and rocking the boat. By way of reaction, new allegiances to the crown were introduced, it was largely limited to citizens of the United Kingdom only. Probably not for the better, but who can say - Canada missed out on some of the dynamism immigration brought to the south.

[Dr_Phibes]

"Somehow found the strength"? He was reinforced and realized that New Orleans was still out of the question so he pounced on some pissant fort in Mobile Bay. Whoopdee frickin doo. More Americans were killed and wounded in Chicago last weekend than that meaningless skirmish.

They could have taken the place and you know it, they had the men and the equipment to do it. Wellington's brother in law, eh?

What was decisive about the battle? You know the answer to that as well. They didn't press the attack because it wasn't worth it, Hitler's school of strategy and tactics wasn't brought to bear. Fact of the matter is, the British army was free-wheeling up and down the coast at will.

Are you taught anything else about the war, or does it stop and start at New Orleans?

[Truman]

Just curious, Phibes.

If-and-when Quebec secedes, how long do you expect Canada to remain sovreign? Heck, we'll even entertain maple leaves on your new state flags.

You've already got McDonalds... Just imagine the NFL in Toronto and Vancouver. Not to mention wide-open free-agency in the NHL without those nattering Canadian federal taxes to discourage it...

Wouldn't mind seeing a Tim Horton's on the Plaza...

[Dr_Phibes]

Not to mention wide-open free-agency in the NHL without those nattering Canadian federal taxes to discourage it...

You can keep it. Back inna day the league was run by good old protestant hockey men who came up off the shop floor. Players worked on beer trucks in the summer and actually gave a shit. Get rid of the Jew lawyer and cities where it doesn't snow, then we'll talk.

[Truman]

Boston and Chicago were Protestant? Do tell...