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Thread #105010   Message #2159227
Posted By: artbrooks
28-Sep-07 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: Ken Burns: The War
Subject: RE: Ken Burns: The War
OK, now I understand your grammar - but it would not have made it past my high school English teacher. But I'm afraid that you need some remedial classes on the causes of that war. The root cause was mercantile, with that of impressment of US citizens for service in the British navy as a secondary cause. The minor and abortive invasions of the remaining British colony in North America were certainly opportunistic, but hardly one of the reasons for the war.