"David Megginson" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com...

It was a British colony (that's the part Steve got right), but they
were not already at war in 1812 (that's the part he got wrong).
Congress declared war so that they could invade the Canadian
colonies; they didn't invade the Canadian colonies because they
were at war.


The United States declared War on Great Britain on June 12, 1812. The US
invaded Canada one month later.