USns kind of slide over the fact that one of our objectives was to "liberate" Canada from the evil overlordship of Mother England. Certainly, from the US standpoint it was mostly a draw if you take that troublesome fact into account. Looking at it from a global scale (well, global if you don't count the majority of the globe who probably didn't even notice it was happening), USns were on the losing side. Not something that gets pointed out much in USn primary or secondary school history classes.