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The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [282] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. University of Illinois Press, 1989. ISBN 0-252-06059-8, by leading American scholar; Hickey, Donald R. Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. (2006) ISBN 0-252-03179-2; Hickey, Donald R. ed. The War of 1812 : writings from America's second war of independence (2013), primary sources online free ...
English: Horizontal hand-colored engraving showing a British officer paying American Indians to scalp an American soldier. There is a poem beneath the image. The caption is at the top of the page..
The siege of Detroit, also known as the surrender of Detroit or the Battle of Fort Detroit, was an early engagement in the War of 1812.A British force under Major General Isaac Brock with indigenous allies under Shawnee leader Tecumseh used bluff and deception to intimidate U.S. Brigadier General William Hull into surrendering the fort and town of Detroit, Michigan, along with his dispirited ...
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and the British Empire from 1812 to 1815, on land in North America and at sea around the world. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
'before the war') was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861. This era was marked by the prevalent practice of slavery and the associated societal norms it cultivated. Over the course of this period, Southern leaders underwent a ...
The invasion and conquest of western Canada was a major objective of the United States in the War of 1812. Among the significant causes of the war were the continuing clash of British and American interests in the Northwest Territory and the desire of frontier expansionists to seize Canada as a bargaining chip while Great Britain was ...
The Incredible War of 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941-13-3. Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840–1914) (1905) Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812 (Boston: Little Brown) American Library Association. Malcomson, Robert (1998). Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario 1812–1814. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio.