The door to Canada was open.

Great stores of ammunition and a hundred and twenty guns, which in due course were used against the British at Boston, fell into American hands.
About Canada Washington was ill-informed.

He thought of the Canadians as if they were Virginians or New Yorkers.

They had been recently conquered by Britain; their new king was a tyrant; they would desire liberty and would welcome an American army.

So reasoned Washington, but without knowledge.