"On to Canada!" was the slogan of the frontiersmen. It expressed at once their desire to punish the hereditary foe and to rid themselves of an unfriendly power to the north.
...the old foemen of 1812—sons of...the Kentucky pioneers in fringed buckskins,...sons of the Canadian militia...today (1920) the poppies blow above the graves of the sons of the men who fought each...in the Michigan wilderness and at Lundy's Lane.
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