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According to that, the entire war cost ~$105 million dollars, which is about $2 billion dollars today. So 3 years of war equals around one day of the current US military budget.

I realize your post was mostly silly, but it made me curious so I ran the numbers.

The US kicked the British out of Canada in 1867.

I presume this is a joke (though I don’t get it), because AFAIK the US had nothing at all to do with Canadian federation.

Post civil war, there was concern that Canada would be manifest destinied. Britain was somewhat supportive of the CSA and Alaska was purchased in 1867 so there were reasons to think they were next.

Well, TIL. Interesting that I had so many hours of Canadian history yet this particular angle didn’t stick with me. I recall a framing of the constitution act as a quintessentially Canadian “we asked politely for independence, and Britain said okay”, but after some reading it does seem your “let’s get out of here, the neighbors are psycho” framing also holds water ;) I suppose both are true.

That was invading Britain more like, it's time for a rematch.

Of course, we may re"match" by lighting California on fire again when the prevailing winds are from the Southwest.