Now there are none. A little more than a century and a half ago the United States appeared willing to go to war with the world's only superpower of the time to try to turn Vancouver, British Columbia, into a city ruled from Washington, D.C. rather than from Ottawa or London.
但我们有理由期盼。从优利乌斯·恺撒建立专职执政官制度到1945年，很可能有不只一支军队越过或试图越过莱茵河，现在却一支也没有。大约一个半世纪前，美国似乎决定与当时全球唯一的超级大国交战，将英属哥伦比亚的温哥华变成由华盛顿，而非渥太华或伦敦控制的城市。