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  • You’re very much overstating the importance of a two year war fought fifty years before Canada was even formed but otherwise sure, that was already implied.

    And it still doesn’t change the fact that America didn’t lose the War of 1812 and you’d have to be profoundly ignorant to claim it did.

    Now, if you want to point out that just like in the Revolution America only survived because the Empire was busy fighting the French, that’s an interesting point to bring up.

    Fun Fact: the European population of Canada in 1812 was ~250k. It would grow by ~90k, an absolute absurd population boom from American loyalists immigrating during and after the war…

    When they realized the British Empire wouldn’t be retaking the colonies after all.

    (The population of America in 1812 was 7.2 million, so it turns out the most important facet of 1812 for Canada wasn’t the “martial tradition” of doing what the British said but getting 1.25% of Americans to immigrate there)