June 18, 1812: The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law—and the War of 1812 begins. The American war declaration, opposed by a sizable minority in Congress, had been called in response to the British economic blockade of France, the induction of American seaman into the British Royal Navy against their will, and the British support of Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier. A faction of Congress known as the “War Hawks” had been advocating war with Britain for several years and had not hidden their hopes that a U.S. invasion of Canada might result in significant territorial land gains for the United States.
In the months after President Madison proclaimed the state of war to be in effect, American forces launched a three-point invasion of Canada, all of which were decisively unsuccessful. In 1814, with Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire collapsing, the British were able to allocate more military resources to the American war, and Washington, D.C., fell to the British in August. In Washington, British troops burned the White House, the Capitol, and other buildings in retaliation for the earlier burning of government buildings in Canada by U.S. soldiers.
In September, the tide of the war turned when Thomas Macdonough’s American naval force won a decisive victory at the Battle of Plattsburg Bay on Lake Champlain. The invading British army was forced to retreat back into Canada. The American victory on Lake Champlain led to the conclusion of U.S.-British peace negotiations in Belgium, and on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed, formally ending the War of 1812. By the terms of the agreement, all conquered territory was to be returned, and a commission would be established to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada.
British forces assailing the Gulf Coast were not informed of the treaty in time, and on January 8, 1815, the U.S. forces under Andrew Jackson achieved the greatest American victory of the war at the Battle of New Orleans. The American public heard of Jackson’s victory and the Treaty of Ghent at approximately the same time, fostering a greater sentiment of self-confidence and shared identity throughout the young republic.
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Fucken Brits …. trying to destroy America since 1776. And still trying.
VERY helpful title …. being informed that the War Of 1812 began in 1812. Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
EVERYTHING you need to know about the War of 1812 in one song!
Bonus video #1 —- EVERYTHING you need to know about Canada in one song!
Bonus video #2 —- EVERYTHING in June is gay.
We need another Jackson! as President. Not a fucking Lincoln or Kennedy or even Reagan and certainly not FDR or that sausage smoking Obamy. If Trump had had the balls Jackson had he would have declared martial law (By the Eternal!) and arrested about 1,000 elite scumbags and the ‘Left’ would have been done. Plus shooting few BLM types for good measure would help too.
Slapping names, dates, on wars is same as slapping lines, names, on maps. “The War of 1812 begins….”
Rubbish.
War ~ not a fake “particular” war ~ what is it good for?
Well, not as much good for the oligarchs if the one continuous war isn’t serialized, chopped into chapters, & edit-dumbed down for the cannon fodder…
…“too long; did not read” brings out the alienated seditionists too much, causes ABBA songs like “Waterloo” (& Watergate – “does your conscience bother you? tell the truth…) & when the Radio starts Talking like that the deplorable dirts ~ Joe, & the rest of the clan ~ start to get funny-queer ideas that mis-allocate the human resources for to quash ‘em, & that flattens the trajectory, extends the timeline, towards Garch’s Gulch…
…Noah’s Garch hates that Bridge Over Troubled Waters disruption, prefers Perfect Storm sailing, & Front-Captains like George Washington Clooney.
Dropping acid and blogging in the morning is not a good way to start the day
Just coffee. A non-acidic dark roast. Synapses firing ~ on a few things that happened on this day in history ~ not melty.
If there was a repeat of 1812 destruction & death events today inside the Capital Beltway I-495, I do wonder what would be the reaction of those unenlightened, knuckle-draggin’, drool-dribblin’, slack-jawed local yokels in flyover country?
America’s first war of imperial conquest disguised as always, as a war to “liberate” another “oppressed” country. New England discussed secession as a result of this tyrannical move by Madison.
It is funny that the real reason for the war was that Washington D.C. wanted to annex Canada.
The US got its collective ass kicked by Canadian Militias.
The U.S. actually surrendered.
That will NEVER BE TAUGHT IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!
That is the short version.
And still today we invade, destroy, and occupy nations all to “liberate” them from their oppressors….same as we said we were doing in 1812 with Canada.