Yeah what gets unsaid in US history books is that the "War of 1812" against Napoleon was much much more importanthttps://twitter.com/leveltworogue/status/770059045768142849 …
well arguably if not for Napoleon there wouldn't have been a war
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the impressment thing only happened bc of Napoleon
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and the actual reason for the war wasn't that it was us thinking w Britain distracted we could conquer Canada
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Fair point. At any rate, at a minimum it was more complicated than the "The British were dicks" that grade school history
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I had implied.
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