History of Canada

Hope you will be able to fix it. Never read a Canadian AAR before

What ? Never heard of such bad conditions before

The Canadian capital is in... Manitoba?

cool a canadian AAR...but ehm...why doesn't canada have CB shields on all of canada?

Now this is a challenge! Hope you get the game running and good luck.

Yea I'm pretty sure the capital is in Manitoba.

Joe

Nice idea... But why does Canada have Candar's shields and flags?

Originally posted by Dan Cook
It's pretty unplayable. They have no economy, no manpower, and most of their provinces are TPs.

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yes yes yes.. hope you can get this fixed.. definitely sounds like it should be quite interesting. phew.. good luck.

Canada shouldn't get their CB shields on Newfoundland, which didn't join Canada until 1949 IIRC....

Originally posted by Lord Durham
Don't go there. A lot of Americans probably think it is.

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Na-uh, we all know it's in Victoria BC, very pretty Parliament building too.

Originally posted by Castellon
Not very historic.

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Actually presuming that Canada has become a country independent of Britian its probably very realistic. While neither side in the War of 1812 went through the trouble of raising all that many Canadians into the militia, of the relitivly modest numbers that where enlisted more served with the Americans then with the Canadians. It is however worth noting that those that did serve with the British where generally better, being mostly fiercly loyal and very anti-american, as they where generally loayalists who had fled the United States during the Revolution or the sons of loyalists.

Now in the above I have totally discounted the French Canadians. Almost none where raised into the militia for starters but there where actually a few regiments of French Canadians in the standing army at the start of the war. Deeply distrusted by the British high command, who feared they might well switch sides, they in fact proved, in the one major campaign where they where used, to be surprisingly effective. Good soldiers they managed painfully rebuff a dangerous American flanking manuever in which they where used only becuase there was absolutly nothing else at all that stood between the Americans and Montreal.

In anycase the War of 1812 was won for the Canadians not by Canadians at all but by British Regulers and Indians. Basically the Americans had by this point managed to piss off just about every single tribe on their borders and thus the British where able to capitalize on this during the war. In fact most modern historians consider the War of 1812 to have started not in 1812 at all but in 1811 at the Battle of Tipicanoe in which the Americans attacked Tecumseh's followers and thus started a major Indian War. In some sense 1812 just saw the British added to the mix.

The combination of British Regulers and Indians made a series of stunning victories possible though lousy American leadership certianly helped. This combination allowed the British to wield an amazing tactical benift on the field of battle. As every American schoolboy knows one of the ways that American irregulers liked to fight the British Red Coats was by scattering and hiding in the trees and underbrush. In fact they probably liked to do this in the War of 1812 more then was the case in the actual revolutionary war because the mythology that had grown up about the American Revolution emphasized this tactic and credited it with much of America's military succsess in that conflict. In any case this nullified one of the major British advantages of having their highly trained regulers deliver their nasty musket vollys and was especially effective should the British fall back on cold steel which American militia where notorously prone to flee from.

However in the War of 1812 what would tend to happen is that the American forces would come up to face the British Regulers in some open area. Where upon a few vollys might be exchanged and the Americans would quickly disperse into the surrounding trees to start up the sniping whereupon shadows with tomahawks would descend on them and the forest would start to ring out with cries as small groups of Americans where ambushed by Britians Indian Allies. Essentially in this case the Americans had the worst of both worlds. They could, in general, not stand up to the British regulers in the open and in the undergrowth they where no match for the Indians. Note that traditionally they used different tactics when facing these opponents. I have already noted their dispersed fighting method often used against British Regulers but its worth noting that they would tend to use close ranked high firepower tactics when fighting Indians. Its only when the British Regulers and the Indians were grouped together that the Americans found themselves short of an effective counter measure (this would be somewhat alleviated later in the war when the backwoods Kentuckians finally arrived in the theatre as they where capable of competing with the Indians in a way that the towns people of the American East where simply not mentally or physically equipped to do).

As a final note Britian would repay the Indians for saving their bacon in the War of 1812 by promptly reneging on every promise they made and standing by idly while the Americans took bloody revenge on them after 1815. It was an almost common scene of the day to have Indian villagers fleeing to British forts with American soldiers in hot pursiut only to be dismayed as the British barred the gates to them and watched as they where cut down outside the walls.