The US never tried to take over the territory later called Canada, whether to annex it or to remove the British. There was never a war declared for that purpose, the US never mobilized its full military toward that aim, there was never a large amount of financing raised to pay for such an immense effort, and so on. There&#x27;s zero evidence to support the notion that US planned to try to accomplish that outcome. At best it was a skirmish toward a narrow goal.