U.S. leaders assume that Canada can be…
August 1812 CE
Former President Jefferson optimistically refers to the conquest of Canada as "a matter of marching".
Many Loyalist Americans had migrated to Upper Canada after the Revolutionary War.
There is also significant non-Loyalist American immigration to the area due to the offer of land grants to immigrants, and the U.S. assume the latter favor the American cause, but they do not.
In prewar Upper Canada, General Prévost had been in the unusual position of having to purchase many provisions for his troops from the American side.
This peculiar trade will persist throughout the war in spite of an abortive attempt by the U.S. government to curtail it.