Re: Vivre la Quebec libre!! (8-) (was Re: Odd FT Idea)

NVDoyle@aol.com wrote:
>      As for how well the old USA and UK units combined, after the
> Pacification, Amalgamation (into the AC) and the ensuing 15-year War
of the
> Americas, and then the 2-year lightning campaign into South America 25
years
> later, I think that most differences would be past.  As for the odd
foreign
> contingent (ex: Ghurkas), there are probably some surviving in the
NAC,
> descendants of those who were used during the Pacification.  They
probably put
> the Ghurkas in the American South as 'peacekeepers'.	I would.

Something I forgot to mention in my response to Stuart; a way to handle
the integration would be to build large American formations (US 1st
Infantry),
with British, Canadian and American Regiments (they'd probably have to
back to the US Civil War for some of these; anybody remember Stonewall
Jackson's Regiment at First Manassas?  (8-) )  (I hope I got the battle
right; first one of the US Civil War, where Jackson get's his
nickname...)

> PS: During one of the more recent Quebec secession 'crises', didn't
the
> Provinces east of Quebec threaten to apply to the USA for statehood in
Quebec
> did secede?  Or is this an urban legend on a grand scale?

There's been some talk about it in Canadian PolSci and History courses,
but
more as a 'what-if' scenario than any actual declared intent.  In other
words, Urban Legend.  (Though Dunnigan/Bay in 'A Quick and Dirty Guide
to
War' have what I consider a really interesting scenario for a Canadian 
Civil War; Ontario and West stays in Canada, Quebec goes its separate 
ways, the Maritime provinces join the US, and Newfoundland petitions the
UK to rejoin as a colony.  (8-) )

J.

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