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Ky Lane

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Nah, we have a few boats, tanks and a couple of dozen soldiers. Didn't you read the video, NZ has none. ;) Which would you rather invade first, the country that takes 30 seconds or 25?

 

perhaps - but most americans could find us on a map.

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perhaps - but most americans could find us on a map.

 

I have a better idea, how about we invade NZ. We could put our tanks onto our boats and steam them down there. The US is too busy in the middle East and they won't even know we did it. We could have 2 tanks in NZ and 3 in Canada. The world is ours...muhahahhaha.:p

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When Have we ever been interested in old anything? There's New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New England, etc., etc... I think as Americans we love the word "new" -- it sounds exciting and practically markets itself!

 

Old York, Old Hampshire and Old England are ours. We just called them York, Hampshire and England though, and your not having them...

 

Ok, maybe you can have York... :)

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Really? When Have we ever been interested in old anything? There's New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New England, etc., etc... I think as Americans we love the word "new" -- it sounds exciting and practically markets itself!

 

while i am displeased about the administration leadership of my country, i am not into bashing my country. not directed at you ShaunDon, but the tongue in cheek vibe of this thread.

 

but, ....anyway.

 

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neko Newbie

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I have a better idea, how about we invade NZ. We could put our tanks onto our boats and steam them down there. The US is too busy in the middle East and they won't even know we did it. We could have 2 tanks in NZ and 3 in Canada. The world is ours...muhahahhaha.:p

 

we wouldn't need to invade them - armed forced or not.

 

kiwis and canadians are kindred spirits, living in the shadow of our big brash neighbours.

 

we can go there peacefully, and visa versa........

 

i have more kiwi friends here on the west coast than americans and aussies...although i never go to whistler anymore.

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neko Newbie

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Boston isn't our capital. It's only the capital of sports. :)

 

BTW you didn't burn our capital. That was the Brits. And we won that war.

 

agreed.

 

are you thinking of the war of independance ? it's a rare american who has heard of the war of 1812.......

 

The war started poorly for the Americans in August 1812, when an attempt to invade Canada was repulsed by Major-General Isaac Brock and a force of 350 regular British troops he commanded (supported in turn by local militias and American Indians). This led to the British capture of Detroit. A second invasion on the Niagara peninsula was defeated on October 13, 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights at which Brock was killed. The American strategy relied in part on militias, but they either resisted service or were incompetently led. Financial and logistical problems also plagued the American effort. Military and civilian leadership was lacking and remained a critical American weakness until 1814. New England opposed the war and refused to provide troops or finance.

 

Britain had excellent finance and logistics, but the war with France had a higher priority, so in 1812–13 it adopted a defensive strategy. After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the British were able to send veteran armies to the U.S., but by then the Americans had learned how to mobilize and fight.

 

At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded much of the coastline, though allowing substantial exports from New England, which was trading with Britain and Canada in defiance of American laws. The blockade devastated American agricultural exports but helped stimulate local factories that replaced goods previously imported. The American strategy of using small gunboats to defend ports was a fiasco, as the British raided the coast at will.

 

The most famous episode was a series of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, including an attack on Washington D.C. that resulted in the burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Yard and other public buildings, later called the "Burning of Washington", which avenged the burning of York, today's Toronto, in the previous year. The Americans were more successful sending out several hundred privateers to attack British merchant ships; British commercial interests were damaged, especially in the West Indies.

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Bingo.

 

Look, we're not actually "dumb Americans", we just pretend for the sake of your self esteem. Most of us are familiar with the War of 1812, though there are some people in Louisiana who will disagree that the British aggression against the Chesapeake region was the "most famous episode". And it established, even to those in the British government too thinck to understand that they'd already lost once, that they weren't going to be able to re-tyrranize the Americans, kidnap them and put them to work on their ships, etc. The only part that mystifies is that somehow they managed to propagandize us well enough that most Americans still think the French were our enemy.

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