American expectations of a welcoming population in Canada overlooked Loyalists who had left after the American Revolution. Those settlers had already chosen not to join the new republic. Their departure gave little reason to assume that they would welcome an American invasion or annexation. The criticism centres on the mismatch between their known political allegiance and the invaders' expectations.
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Loyalist settlement undermined an invasion assumption
American expectations of a welcoming population in Canada overlooked settlers who had already left the United States because they rejected the new republic.