"Gary D. Kee" wrote: > True, textbook history is always chauvinistic. The main problem the British > had was with the French and with a sustantial segment of the Colonists in > rebellion, the ground was not a good one to choose, for the British. They did > come back in 1812 and even burned the White House. I don't know the internal > politics of the War of 1812 in Britain, but I imagine they saw it as a > "Vietnam". At the time even Thomas Jefferson vision of America was pastoral, he never dreamed the IR would take such a strong hold. > He is right you know, at the time the US was not worth the fight in the > grand scheme of things. Many on us Americans don't really lose sight of > that but it is that we are never taught that in our school history.