260 Plan of Campaign ,1812

CHAPTER 25
 THE SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ,1812-1815 

260.Plan of Campaign ,1812

 The American plan of campaign was that General Hul should invade Canada from Detroit . He could then march eastward , north of Lake Erie , and meet another army which was to cross the Niagara River . These two armies were to take up the eastward march and join a third army from New York . The three armies then would capture Montreal and Quebec and generaly all Canada . It was a splendid plan . But there were three things in the way of carrying it out :( i ) there was no trained American army ;(2) there were no supplies for an army when gathered and trained ; and (3) there was a smal , well - trained and wel - supplied army in Canada .