Chapter 447, Retreat

If the Canadians who entered the U.S. presidential palace this time are all authentic, the English-speaking Canadians are fine. Those guys are very bad, but they have limited artistic cells, and they don't have much creativity in scribbling, at most they just make some red paint, write some nonsense, such as nonsense that starts with the letter F, for example, "I F Y" and the like, which have no technical content at all.

However, there are also French-speaking guys from Quebec among Canadians. Quebec was originally a French colony, but in the Seven Years' War, the French lost to the British, and the colony went to the British. However, the main inhabitants of the area still speak French. It's just that they have become French-speaking Englishmen. Just like now in Louisiana, there are German-speaking French people everywhere.

It is said that these French-speaking guys do not have a high sense of identification with the British. To be honest, they don't have a high sense of identity with Canada, and until hundreds of years later, they have not threatened to referend for independence. But at this time, they were very aggressive about fighting the Americans. This is of course because - the Americans persecute Catholics!

Many of the British immigrants who first came to the North American continent were fleeing the persecution of the Puritans by the Anglican Church. But the so-called dragon slaying boy always turns into an evil dragon in the end. As soon as the Calvinists established their own state, they began to persecute other heretics, such as Catholicism.

However, this is also a traditional Calvinist art. When Calvin was still persecuted by the Catholic Church, in his most important work, The Principles of Religion, he wrote very sincerely: "It is a sin to put heretics to death, and it is contrary to all the principles of humanity to put their lives to death with fire and sword." But as soon as Calvin became the de facto ruler of Geneva, he made a big barbecue with a heresy called Servette who did not recognize the Trinity.

So when the Puritans, these Calvinists, came to power in the United States, they learned from their teachers and attacked the "ungodly heretics." Many Catholics fled to the French-speaking part of Canada, bringing this religious hatred with them.

In terms of artistic cells, those who speak French are better than those who speak English. For example, Private Bill from Ottawa was carrying a bucket of black paint and preparing to write a crude text on the desk of the President of the United States when his friend, Louis from Quebec, grabbed him.

"What are you going to write on this?" Louie asked.

"Of course, Jefferson, I've got your whole family. What else could it be? The rustic Bill asked rhetorically.

"It's so unimaginative! That's really ...... Listen to me! First of all, you're going to get a bucket of red paint, and then you're going to write, 'Dear President Jefferson, I've had a good time with your sisters and daughters at your desk, and I've written you here with what they've been out, and they're all saying, 'I'm better than you can .......'"

"Wow! Louie, you're such a bad thing! It's really interesting to write like that, though, hahaha...... That's it! ”

Then Bill went to change a bucket of red paint......

In addition to the text, those French-speaking guys also left a large number of paintings in the presidential palace, what Calvin went to hell, what Calvin took the Puritans to kneel and lick Lucifer in hell, to say that the paintings are quite realistic.

In addition, the Canadians also found a secret passage under the US presidential palace, but it seems that no one has entered this secret passage for a long time, and they don't know what it is used for.

But that was basically the end of the British offensive. Before receiving reinforcements from home, the British, or the Canadians, faced the big unsolvable problem of their very low strength and logistical limits. Now that it is like this, it has basically reached the limit of troops and logistics. The logistical line from Cleveland to Washington was also constantly being harassed by the Americans.

Just as in another time and space, after Napoleon had taken Moscow again, he stopped in Moscow in the hope of meeting the messengers sent by the Tsar to pray for peace, General Isaac Bullock also stayed in Washington for a week with his large army to wait for the possible messengers of peace sent by the Americans.

However, although the Americans suffered several defeats in a row, they did not intend to make peace immediately. The Americans knew that the strength of the Canadians had reached its limit, and that as long as the U.S. Navy could continue to maintain the blockade of Canada's shipping routes, there would always be a time when the Canadians' strength would be exhausted, and even if they had to negotiate, it would be much better to negotiate at that time than now.

On the other hand, the Americans, although they were beaten by the British on the frontal battlefield. However, the Yankees, who are full of martial virtues, do things like attack and disturbance, but they still have great potential for development. The American people have a lot of guns, and the guns they buy with their own money are generally better in performance than the guns purchased by the state for the army. And because they play with guns a lot, their marksmanship is also good. So it was quite good to get on horseback, bring guns, and from time to time attack the logistics convoys of the British.

After a week's stay, General Isaac Bullock began to return the way he had come. Just like in the original history, when Napoleon withdrew his troops from Russia, the Russian Cossacks followed Napoleon's army, constantly attacking Napoleon's army, and constantly inflicting huge losses on the French army.

But the situation of the British army was much stronger than that of Napoleon in another time and space. The American militia did spontaneously follow behind the British and tried to attack the retreating British troops. But the British needed to retreat much closer, and more importantly, there was no strong General Winter on the side of the Americans.

Therefore, the retreat of the British to Cleveland was quite smooth, and most of the American cavalry who tried to take advantage of it were in vain, and some were even beaten to the head by the British counterattack. Not only did the British successfully return to Cleveland, but they also robbed everything they could steal along the way—the British also knew that if they could not send reinforcements quickly at home, the British would probably be the greatest enemy in North America for some time to come.

For some time thereafter, the British army centered on Cleveland, using its control of the waterways of the Great Lakes, constantly harassed the Americans in the vicinity, and looted their towns and farms. And then by water, all of these things are sent back to Canada.