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Fine, I'll leave you to your fantasies. Where wars have timekeepers. 
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At least we burned down your capital and didn't claim credit for an act done by others.Originally posted by notyoueither View PostI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostFine, I'll leave you to your fantasies. Where wars have timekeepers.
They do. It's called a Treaty.
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Disappointed that this is not about the Vancouver Canadians winning their second consecutive Northwest League championship.
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So naive.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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FixedOriginally posted by MrFun View Post
You're thinking of the southern states along the Mississippi. Do NOT confuse THOSE backward states with backward states like Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota."Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
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Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
You burned down what amounted to a fur trade post.
York was the 'capital' of a colony that did not exist 40 years previously.
Quebec would have been an accomplishment. That may be why you didn't manage to get it.
As for the 'others.' 'They' were 'us.' If a person was born in what would become Canada and wished to become a soldier he joined the British army.(\__/)
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York was the administrative capital of Upper Canada where the loyalists settled. Burning Washington was a retaliation for that.Comment
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it wasn't really a question of public opinion but one of money and men. britain was concerned with the rather more pressing matter of a full scale european war and wouldn't have wanted to commit any more resources than were absolutely necessary to fighting in the americas.Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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