“It was the south who initiated hostilities not the north.”
That’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? One could say that, by occupying sovereign territory against the wishes of the state government, the Feds initiated hostilities. They wouldn’t have expected to park US troops at a fort in Canada and gotten away with it, would they?
One could say that, but I wouldn’t.
“They wouldn’t have expected to park US troops at a fort in Canada and gotten away with it, would they?”
If the fort belonged to the United States government they would.