The invasion was never meant to be a successful, long-term occupation, but a semi-suicidal maneuver to buy some time for Canada before Britain could intervene. You'd think we'd be just the sort of people any nation would want to break to their will to be used as slave labor" Phillips snorted.
His administration has imposed tariffs on imports that have drawn ire from Canada. Nevertheless, the Royal Navy had the benefit of years of experience in both war and peace that the USN lacked.
The result. US has nuclear weapons but not many troops. Although Ticonderoga's capture on 10 May opened the way for an American advance into Canada and Benedict Arnold warned the Continental Congress that the British were massing their forces at St. Johns, Congress did not respond with a decision to take offensive action until 27 June. Had it succeeded, a 19th century attempt to force the British out of Ireland by invading Canada would be remembered as the boldest flanking maneuver in military history.
Under different circumstances, the Province of Canada might have looked like an ideal buyer, thanks to the 1,mile 2,kilometer border it shared with Alaska. An account of Allied cooperation in hemispheric defense and in the fight against Germany and Japan. The common effort ranged from growing wheat to the climactic development of the atomic bomb. If we could go back in time where we change the way Canada is, what would the world be like if Canada were to take over the United States?
Although Washington maintained good relations with Ottawa, war plans in both the United States and the United Kingdom expected a multipronged invasion into America's northern neighbor, designed to quickly occupy the country before. In late and early , these tensions reached panic levels in Washington, London and especially Ottawa.
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These words proved immediately laughable. Hull briefly laid siege to Fort Malden but soon withdrew after warriors under the leadership of Shawnee chief Tecumseh intercepted his supply train. British commander Isaac Brock then chased the Americans back across the river and began launching cannon fire at Fort Detroit from the Canadian side.
Brock arranged for a bogus document to reach the Americans that told of large numbers of Native Americans approaching Detroit. He also mentioned to Hull that he would be unable to control his Native American allies once the fighting started. Hull was later court-martialed and convicted of cowardice and neglect of duty.
Further east, U. But U. Roughly Americans were killed or wounded in the battle, while the British suffered some casualties. In the third prong of the attack, U. To start, Coombs said, we have have to look at some facts about the difference in military might between these two nations.
The 60, or so regular Canadian force is a pittance compared to the 1,, or so in the United States, and that's not even bringing in the reserve 20, for Canada, , for America or technology and weapons into it. Canada has around tanks to America's 8, Canada has fewer than active military aircrafts compared to the 13, or so military aircraft in the States I won't even bother comparing the CF to what the Americans have.
In terms of naval might, Canada has around 30 ships half of which are being repaired compared to the American ships in active service or reserve. In terms of the greatest equalizer, nuclear weapons, well, it's bad. Canada has not maintained nuclear capability since the late 80s, and the States have 6,, which is enough to pretty much wipe out every living life form on this planet.
Yet another thing working against Canada is the fact the US is considered a very close partner, so if they started amassing on the border and explained it away as a military exercise Canada would, most likely, accept it as true. The Great White North wouldn't see this coming and be without a well-known and practiced contingency plan. Frankly, Canada's biggest military advantage for the last century has been our close friendship and proximity to the United States.
In terms of planning, well, a significant amount of time would go into the particulars of the attack on the American side, said Coombs, it would be planned for months, if not years. When the trigger is finally pulled, the first thing Canadians would feel wouldn't be the shockwave or heat of an explosion but simple annoyance.
Across the country, Canucks would look at their phones and wonder why our tweets won't post and our calls just dropped. The reason for this annoyance would be that an extremely sophisticated telecommunications attack was just deployed—something Canada doesn't have the capability to defend against, according to Coombs.
This is when the American troops, most likely made up of highly trained special-ops forces, would begin to move simultaneously from their positions on the borders.
In terms of the direction of the movement and deployment, Coombs estimates that the plan of deployment would follow very closely to a plan laid out in the 20s and 30s of a US invasion of Canada made in anticipation for a war with Britain called War Plan Red. So, looking at this plan, we can see the direction the troops would move into the Great White North on three fronts. On the east coast, troops would move into Halifax and New Brunswick.
The troops would land by sea via St. This would have been mounted in the years after World War I, when geopolitical alliances were more fluid, and before they fixed themselves into the now-familiar Axis and Allied powers of the Second World War. Unlikely, but not impossible. In the event of this particular scenario, a plan called Defense Scheme No.
If and when evidence of an impending American invasion were to come to light, the plan specified, the Canadian military was to conduct a three-pronged invasion of the northern United States, creating enough of a havoc to put the U. Brown even undertook some very informal though probably grossly illegal reconnaissance missions in and around Vermont, near the border — scoping out bridges, locks and railroad lines, and chatting with locals in taverns. The invasion was never meant to be a successful, long-term occupation, but a semi-suicidal maneuver to buy some time for Canada before Britain could intervene.
It was doomed to fail in the long term. It was not seriously considered, either. As it is the divinely ordained duty of every Minnesota writer on the internet to find a local angle for any phenomenon, no matter how dubious or stupid, I would now like to take this opportunity to contemplate the Canadian occupation and destruction of the Twin Cities.
The whole plan was so far-fetched almost anything you can imagine about the specifics would be in the realm of fiction. This is perhaps a nice way of saying I am not a military historian, nor do I pretend to have any special insight into how the troops of the Canadian Prairie Command would have handled a land invasion in I did speak to a retired Canadian major and military historian on the topic, a helpful man who had the good taste to prefer not to be named.
He confirmed the farcical nature of the whole scenario.
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