On Remembrance Day, Canadians commemorate the valour of our soldiers who died in the First World War and later conflicts. Such is the attention paid to the violent 20th century, that we sometimes forget the soldiers who served in earlier times.
This is particularly true of the War of 1812, in which anglophone and francophone Canadians fought alongside the British army and their aboriginal allies to preserve this nation against foreign invasion. Without their courage and sacrifice there would be no modern Canada because it would be part of the United States.
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