User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Triple Whammy: Guns Announces his Return/@comment-4758513-20140605004923

The Americans were pretty damn interested in annexing Canada, though. It wasn't a cause of the war, but once it got started, it was a goal, without doubt.

And to be honest, the war did end more or less in a draw. The British wanted to finish after the war with Napoleon, and asked Wellington what he needed to outright defeat the Americans. He said nothing would do and that the war was unwinnable.