An Unequal War

The first to engage the American forces was a mixed British-Canadian force.

This force numbered only a few hundred men. Their primary objective was to investigate the situation along the northeastern border of the United States and conduct reconnaissance in preparation for the subsequent offensive by the main force.

Yet, to everyone's surprise, the United States seemed to have made no defensive preparations whatsoever in the border region. There were many important cities in the American Northeast, the most famous being New York and Boston.

A little farther south lay the American capital, Washington, as well as Philadelphia and other cities, all of which also fell within the American Northeast.

Even counting only New York State and the land north of it, the region held nearly twenty million people. By rights, it should have been an area where the American army concentrated its troops and defenses.

Yet in reality, apart from a few border outposts, there were almost no troops stationed along the border between the United States and Canada.

This mixed British-Canadian force of only a few hundred men advanced nearly ten kilometers into Maine State before being discovered by the local State Police.

Although the Anglo-Canadian Allied Forces quickly shot down those Maine Police officers, the gunfire alerted the Americans, who ultimately discovered the movements of this Anglo-Canadian Allied Force.

The British had originally believed this would be a hard battle. Once the American army discovered the enemy in time, it would swiftly assemble and drive them from American soil.

Yet after waiting for a long time without finding any trace of the American army, further reconnaissance revealed that the American border outposts appeared to have been completely deserted.

What exactly was going on?

Deeply puzzled, the British and Canadians even suspected this was an American trap, meant