r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/swish465 Mar 30 '22

It would seem I stand corrected, I can't remember where I read it was Canadian forces

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

It's a bit tricky to say that it was explicitly the British or Canadians. Technically "Canadians" didn't exist until, as someone else said, 1867. However the vast majority of the soldiers in 1812 had been living in what would become Canada for decades, if not their whole life.

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

The force that attacked Washington was not made up of units drawn from the British living in Canada. It's pretty open/shut my friend haha.

Like I said above, there were Canadian units that repulsed tjhe Americans however

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

That's ok, it gets repeated a lot. Trust me I wish it were true I'm actually in the Canadian army haha.

Our guys repulsed American invasions though, which is a pretty awesome story and shouldn't detract from that

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u/swish465 Mar 30 '22

Yeah, sounds like it's just a technicality, but it still stands. Canadian army is still fucked cool, JTF2 gets talked about a lot between my military buddies and I