Unfortunately, it was totally serious on the British side. Newfoundland was greatly in debt, and it was basically a British colony governed by a Governor due to previous problems with local government. Britain wanted Newfoundland to seek independence or unite with Canada, with the caveat of course being that Canada would take on Newfoundland’s debt.
Ah, American propaganda.
How is it that a war that started when America wanted to take over and annex British North America gets called a stalemate when America utterly failed to achieve it’s objective at all? It doesn’t, it was a win for British North America because they didn’t get taken over.
Macleans magazine has written about how the US likes to pretend it won. It’s an ego issue I’d assume, they can’t admit that they ever lost something.
Well, that’s a mature answer.
I assume this is the internet equivalent of “shut up, stop proving me wrong”.
Both Rich and I have proved that you are wrong (and heck, Rich is an American) and that by any objective standard America lost. Badly. Heck, America’s “claim to fame” on 1812 was their national anthem, which was from a battle that occurred
after the signing of the treaty, and technically speaking didn’t happen in that war at all.
It’s why you utterly insist on keeping the guns. Taking a gun away from a man is seen as
emasculating him, Scott even said it takes away his
freedom. Obviously that can’t be true because freedom is a state not dependent on material goods, so you must be thinking of guns as giving you something you didn’t have without it; a
psychological condition since it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever philosophically.
