"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." What did Thomas Jefferson call the invasion of Canada?

As many others did, Thomas Jefferson believed taking Canada was "a mere matter of marching". Why did he feel this way? He expected Canadians, as British colonists, would happily join the U.S., as they were believed to be "disaffected toward their own government," as Secretary of War William Eustis suggested at the time.

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