Shortly after the independence of the United States, it gradually embarked on the road of foreign territorial expansion from the initial 13 States. Canada, which is adjacent to the United States, has a land area of nearly10 million square kilometers, and its current population is only 36 million. At that time, it was even more sparsely populated. Canada is rich in mineral resources, and its crude oil reserves rank second in the world. Americans naturally miss this land day and night. However, at that time, Canada was a British colony, and if Canada was to be incorporated into the territory of the United States, it must be obtained through war, so President Madison declared war on Britain at 18 12.

Shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the American family background was relatively thin. At that time, there were less than 10 thousand regular troops. In order to invade Canada, the United States had to expand its troops to prepare for war, but it was difficult to compare with Britain in terms of national strength at that time. At that time, the main force of Britain was deeply involved in the European battlefield. Only 5,000 British troops are deployed in Canada, and the rest are Canadian militia. So at the beginning of the war, the United States invaded Canada. However, with the arrival of British reinforcements, especially the British navy has more than 100 warships to participate in the war, occupying an absolute advantage at sea. British troops invaded Washington, D.C. and set fire to the White House.

British and American troops fought for more than two years. Although the United States has an advantage on the Canadian front, Britain has an absolute advantage on the sea. Neither country can defeat the other, and finally they can only negotiate a truce. 18 14 At the end of the year, the two countries signed the treaty of ghent, but the war really ended several months after the signing of the treaty, and the border between the two sides returned to the pre-war state after the war. America's first plan to annex Canada failed.

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Although the American plan to annex Canada failed for the first time, the Americans never gave up the plan to annex Canada, which is vast in land and rich in mineral resources. According to the top secret archives released by the US military, the US military began to formulate a new plan to annex Canada on 1927, which was once one of the biggest military secrets in the United States. The Red War Plan was approved by the Secretaries of the Navy of united states secretary of war and the United States on 1930.

The Red War Plan is an action plan made by the United States to annex Canada and have a war with Britain. The plan not only points out Canada's geography, military resources and transportation network, but also suggests that the United States can preemptively send troops to occupy some major ports and railways in Canada's border areas before British aid arrives, so as to prevent British aid from landing and cut off Canada's material transportation roads. To this end, the US Navy and Army jointly captured Halifax, an important port city, and then occupied the power plant near Niagara Falls.

Then, the red war plan proposed to invade Canada in three ways. Invasion of Montreal and Quebec City from Vermont; The second way is to invade Winnipeg and its military warehouse from North Dakota; The third road invaded Ontario from the midwest of the United States and seized a strategic nickel mine.

In the war of 18 12, the US navy was weak, which made the US military very passive at sea. Therefore, the content of controlling sea power has been added to the Red War Plan. The US Navy needs to occupy the Great Lakes region and block the Atlantic and Pacific ports in Canada, thus cutting off the British maritime supply line and cooperating with the army.

However, 1939 World War II broke out, and Britain, France and Germany broke out in Europe, which led the United States to stop updating the Red War Plan and support Britain against Germany instead, but the Red War Plan was still retained. After World War II, for the needs of the Cold War, the United States led the establishment of the NATO military group, and the United States, Britain and Canada joined it as allies, which made the plan of the United States to annex Canada no longer realistic. The United States subsequently decrypted the Red War plan at 1974.

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