untrained militia forces and the third one is the inability of the united states to cope with the lonl gicroblems of invading canada to the north. now it has always been said and already been mentioned today that the united states army was too small to take canada. most estimates of its size by the end of the war sort of reckon it was little more than 30,000 men strong. however, a statistical analysis of the registers of enlistment and surviving military records from the period suggest that there were probably something near about 48,000 men in the united states army by the end of the war. that's a fairly significant difference. it's about 15,000 men. on top of that you've got to consider that in terms of man power, the united states had an advantage over canada of about 15 to 1 in terms of its adult population. you put all of that together and you'd think surely the united defeat the relatively few in canada but it was not. so the question arises as to why not? one reason is that after the failures of the first six months of the war, political pressures on the administration required to d

untrained militia forces and the third one is the inability of the united states to cope with the lonl gicding canada to the north. now it has always been said and already been mentioned today that the united states army was too small to take canada. most estimates of its size by the end of the war sort of reckon it was little more than 30,000 men strong. however, a statistical analysis of the registers of enlistment and surviving military records from the period suggest that there were probably something near about 48,000 men in the united states army by the end of the war. that's a fairly significant difference. it's about 15,000 men. on top of that you've got to consider that in terms of man power, the united states had an advantage over canada of about 15 to 1 in terms of its adult population. you put all of that together and you'd think surely the united defeat the relatively few in canada but it was not. so the question arises as to why not? one reason is that after the failures of the first six months of the war, political pressures on the administration required to distribute a gre