Our bicentennial celebration
 

Tomorrow we celebrate the Battle of York, from the War of 1812. I have to wonder why.

In 1813, when the battle occurred, "Muddy York" (Toronto) was a 'city' of some 750 people plus a few soldiers, quartered at Fort York. A few hundred could be called to muster.

The American army rolled in, 1600 strong. They out numbered the entire city by more than 50%; not just combatants. Basically the entire city of York yelled, "RUN AWAY!!!!!", and they did. The fort fought, and lost.

Not content with their victory the Americans blew up the powder magazine which killed about 20 American soldiers, 80-some Canadians (British), and wounded a few hundred. They then burnt the place to the ground which, at the time and given the force of the explosion, seemed much like killing a butterfly with an 8 pound sledge hammer.

And so we celebrate the turning of proto-Toronto into a smoking crater. Why the hell couldn't we be celebrating the revenge which consisted of a bunch of drunken Nova Scotia irregulars, led by a few British troops, burning The White House down?

Guess cause you rebuilt.

Perhaps its a celebration of the inspiration provided to the French for their battle cry.

Run away!!!

It's odd to me that the War of 1812 is recognized there at all. Here it's barely mentioned as a footnote.

Probably because we lost... lol.

It is celebrated in America, just not by the sissy Yankees who got spanked.

We didn't lose and bend over and take it. We fuckin beat them like the bitches they are and put a man in the White House. It's not our fault you guys up north were bitches.

Nobody in my family lived in the US at that time...

And, you're right... the south is tougher than the pussies in the north... I mean, just look at how the Civil War ended.

We ran out of supplies and men, money won the day. Not being strong. It was our men that kept the war going as long as it did.

We also celebrate the Civil War down here, we aren't ashamed of our loses. :lol:

So you're saying the south lost because the north killed too many of their troops... Shit, obviously the weaker faction won.

We both lost a ton of troops. We didn't have the ability to replace them like the North was and we didn't have the money to keep buying supplies like the North was....

If both groups keep taking massive losses, but one is replenishing those losses while the other one just keeps diminishing, it's pretty much impossible for that side to do anything no matter if they had superior forces to start with...

Germans were the same way. Superior force, way overmatched in numbers and supplies.