Hey, I think you'd really enjoy this book, which I read about 10 years ago, mostly in an effort to trace the history of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Needless to say, the U.S. made a gross miscalculation because we had no intelligence apparatus of any kind, to the point that we had no clue how the Canadians would respond to our "liberating" them from British oppression. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/historian-alan-taylor-s-new-take-on-the-civil-war-of-1812-1.1277948
Hey, I think you'd really enjoy this book, which I read about 10 years ago, mostly in an effort to trace the history of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Needless to say, the U.S. made a gross miscalculation because we had no intelligence apparatus of any kind, to the point that we had no clue how the Canadians would respond to our "liberating" them from British oppression. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/historian-alan-taylor-s-new-take-on-the-civil-war-of-1812-1.1277948