Ten months after it began, the American invasion of Canada was over, a calamity of epic proportions. In the course of nine months more than 12,000 men had been poured into the Canadian venture, of which at least 500 had died and another 500 had been taken captive. Many more had been wounded or were finished as soldiers as a result of debilitations suffered from frostbite, disease, or mental anguish. Two armies had been decimated, two commanders were dead, and tons of precious equipment had been abandoned. The misadventure had culminated in a sorry spectacle in which soldiers refused to fight
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