U.S. Declaration Of Independence: Titanic Struggle

War Of 1812 Dept: The British, of course, have scant memory of the War of 1812, it being a distant, grubby affair that seemed at the time almost insignificant next to their titanic struggle against Napoleonic France, according to The Star. Just as there was a part of the planet widely known as America and peopled by Americans long before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, so, too, had the geography to the north in present-day Quebec and Ontario been called Canada and its population dubbed Canadians for centuries before Confederation in 1867 and it s become axiomatic among historians that Canadians know they won the War of 1812, Americans somehow think they won, and the Indians who d continue to cede land to American expansion definitely know they lost, despite fighting alongside British regulars and Canadian militia. But the war, about to be marked by all sorts of bicentennial commemorations, is arguably what gives both Canada and the United States their sense of identity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.