What was britain hoping to gain by siding with either US or canada?

the awnser is land they were fighting for land to be bigger than the others and claim all the others

Explanation:

The War of 1812, a war between the United States, Great Britain, and Britain's First Nation allies, lasted from 1812 to 1815. The U.S. declared war and historians have long debated the multiple factors behind that decision There were several causes for the U.S. declaration of war: First, a series of trade restrictions introduced by Britain to impede American trade with France, a country with which Britain was at war the U.S. contested these restrictions as illegal under international law second, the impressment forced recruitment of seamen on U.S. vessels into the Royal Navy the British claimed they were British deserters third, the British military support for American Indians who were offering armed resistance to the expansion of the American frontier to the Northwest; fourth, a possible desire on the part of the United States to annex Canada.[3] An implicit but powerful motivation for the Americans was the desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be British insults such as the Chesapeake affair