The British's previous series of victories did not actually change their strategic dilemma. Due to the constraints of France, they were unable to send large-scale reinforcements from their homeland, and they could not break through the blockade of the US fleet. Therefore, the most important military supplies could not be delivered to Canada.

Canada's industry itself is quite limited, and many crucial military supplies cannot be produced. The British had some inventory in Canada, but the quantity was not very large. It was definitely enough to deal with general border frictions, but it was far from enough to deal with large-scale wars.

After the independence of the United States, the British concluded that the colonies should not have too strong, and relatively complete industrial and agricultural industries. The more incomplete they are in the industrial chain, the stronger their dependence on their home country and the less likely they are to cause independence.

This idea is of course reasonable, but no political measure can only have positive effects without side effects. For example, the British's current practice has very obvious side effects, that is, once the sea connection between the local and colonies is temporarily cut off, the colonial independence ability to support war is very weak. So even if the Canadian army performed very well, these tactical successes did not change their strategic dilemma.

"Unless we can get more supplies, we will soon have to retreat from Cleveland," General Isaac Brock said in a letter to the Governor of Canada.

On the contrary, although the Americans suffered a lot of losses, the truly richest region of the United States, that is, the southern United States, did not suffer much damage, so the Americans also paid money and bought weapons and ammunition from the damn Frenchmen. Although the French were not inferior to the Jews at all to ask for money.

For example, when the cruiser was rented, the Republic of Santo Domingo rented the two French cruisers, and paid a symbolic price of two francs. Yes, just two francs, they obtained the right to rent the two cruisers for a whole year. Even in order to show the unbreakable friendship between France and the Republic of Santo Domingo, even the military pay of the soldiers on these two warships, part of the maintenance and supply costs were still provided by the French government.

The Santo Domingo man was in power for life without even seeing the two warships, so he changed his hands and rented the two cruisers to the Americans. Of course, the rental fee was definitely not two francs, but eight hundred thousand francs per ship! Moreover, the crew pay, maintenance and supply costs were all paid by the Americans. Obviously, this part of the money, together with the previous price difference, was all divided by some middlemen.

In addition to cruisers, even other weapons, damn, have inexplicably appeared middlemen who make the difference. Because the French insisted that they had to leave some weapons to ensure the needs of French citizens in Louisiana. Especially during this period, the Americans and the British fought so lively that there were many undefined areas in the borders of Louisiana, the United States, and Canada. Maybe when will this war be defeated in Louisiana all at once? Therefore, the French must first ensure that the needs of French citizens with weapons and self-defense can be met. Even German-speaking French people are the same. In fact, in Louisiana, German-speaking French people are almost more patriotic than French-speaking French people.

This is also a very normal thing, because if these German-speaking French people want to gain a foothold in places like Louisiana and not be bullied by Americans, British and even Indians, they must rely on France. France, at least in North America, indeed treats them as their own people. In this way, can they not be patriotic?

But in this way, there are fewer weapons that can be sold to the Americans. But it doesn’t matter. As long as you are willing to pay, the Americans can still intercept some weapons from another big customer. This big customer is the Mexican. The Mexicans recently won a decisive victory and won the crucial Shaocito silver mine, which has greatly improved their ability to pay.

So not long ago, they had just paid a large sum of goods like the French and ordered a lot of weapons that could be enough to regain Mexico City in one go. These weapons are now on the way and are expected to arrive in New Orleans in three or five days. The French knew that the Americans needed these weapons in urgent need, so they kindly helped them. Then, after the Americans gave a high enough price, the Mexicans agreed to hand over the batch of weapons to the Americans first. They could wait for the next batch of goods. Anyway, the Spanish could no longer invest more power in Mexico in a short period of time. It would not be a big problem to wait for a while.

Of course, those Frenchmen must have made another profit in this transaction.

But for Americans today, time is indeed the most precious thing. Because the French government cannot continue indefinitely in order to cooperate with the military exercises held by them, and every day in the military exercises is spent on money.

Once the military exercise is over, the French will not continue to maintain a strong army in Calais, which is also very costly. Then the gathered troops will return to their respective stations, and the gathered warships will return to their respective home ports for maintenance. After such a large-scale exercise, the French army will definitely not make any particularly big moves in a short period of time.

So as long as the French dispersed these troops, the British would immediately send reinforcements to reinforce North America. The United States must regain their advantage before this.

So, in just a few days, the Americans re-armed, and this time, they not only had guns and cannons, but also mines and barbed wire. Of course, more importantly, their southern soldiers finally became much more obedient after the lessons they learned last time.

So the Americans quickly reorganized an army of more than 40,000 people in the south and began to gather near Cleveland. If Cleveland cannot be recaptured, the Americans will not be able to destroy the British's shipping control in the Great Lakes, which will have many adverse effects on future operations. Therefore, for the Americans, recapturing Cleveland will become the top priority of the next stage of combat.

In New England, the 10,000 state soldiers recruited urgently in New York also arrived near Cleveland.
Chapter completed!