Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

In article <gu5a7j92krg3mvqstdv6mpt5bcj0eu37v4@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:23:14 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>

Again - in British eyes there were enough of them that it was felt to
be a security threat in the region between London (ON) and York (now
Toronto) though in the event these settlers chose loyalty to their
land rather than to their former country.

>
Yeah, to the 1812 invaders' enormous surprise, you can't win hearts
and minds by setting fire to people's homes.

 
So, while there's no UE or American Invasion of 1812 About Which
They Would Later Lie Shamelessly stories in the Canadian side of
my family, my aunt had a rather astonishing claim that we were
related to Upper Canada's Bishop Strachan, a stalwart figure who
played a central role in the Upper Canada Rebellion... by being
such a consumate dick (along with the rest of the Family Compact
that ran Upper Canada back then) that he helped provoke it.
 
Well, you can't have heroes without villains.
 

So even if we agree many of the colonial Canadian powers that be are
"consumate dicks" how does that create a right by Americans to
"liberate" them.

In this case, the US attempt steal Canada _led_ the rise of the
Family Compact.
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