To reply to an earlier thread, there was a substantial effort to bring Canadians into the American effort against Britain, including substantial military action. This fell totally flat for a number of reasons, most of which are never mentioned in American schools (I was educated in one). For a start, the French had no interest in joining another bunch of English speakers. They had also lots of experience of Americans in the French and Indian War, and were even more unsympathetic to them than they were to the British. Third, the Revolutionary propaganda that was supposed to convince them to join was full of anti-priest, and anti-Catholic diatribes -- overthrow your priest ridden culture and join us -- which did not go down very well. It was probably the widespread anti-Catholic campaign that hurt the most. If it wasn't for the incompetence of the generation of British generals after Wolfe, and the assistance of the French, the upstart rebellion would likely have been crushed. (It was a paraphrase of this argument that got me into trouble in my American History grade 9 Presentation in Belton Junior High School, Belton, Missouri in 1966, and resulted in an extraordinary number of parking lot brawls for weeks thereafter, all of which I lost).
yours, Peter T.