Quote Originally Posted by Decker
Well we didn't necessarily want it bad enough.
America had a lot more troops than the colonial forces at the beginning of the war, and were defeated by Brock and Sheaffe. However, later in the war the battles went back and forth (the problem with Canadian teaching - from my experience, this was rarely taught in history classes - only the, admittedly major, victories at the beginning are). However, I'd argue that it was a stalemate in favour of Britain by the end of the war.

Anyways, that's neither here nor there. Wrong topic altogether, and I shouldn't have started that. My apologies.