War+of+1812

==== =** Who was in the war? **= USA and Great Britain
 * The War of 1812 can also be called a Civil War of four reasons:
 * Loyalists and Americans battled for control of Upper Canada.
 * Americans fought Americans. Many American Federalists served as spies and smugglers for the British and Federalist leaders flirted with breaking up America.
 * Irish vs. Irish. Irish American soldiers faced British regiments primarily recruited in Ireland.
 * Indians attacked one another as allies of the British or Americans
 * James Vosburgh is Canada's Paul Revere. He was a mounted American courier with news that America declared war. Instead of delivering the news to American Fort Niagara he went to Queenston (Upper Canada) and delivered his dispatches to Thomas Clark who alerted British General Isaac Brock. Vosburgh's actions eliminated any American advantage of surprise.
 * Canadians view the War of 1812 as a victory where David (Canada had a much smaller population than America) beat Goliath and had heroes such as Laura Secord.


 * General Isaac Brock
 * Haudenosaunee Indians were pulled into the war on July 11, 1813 when the British invaded their territory (reservations in western and central New York) at Black Rock. Haudenosaunee Indians and Indian war chiefs were receiving monies from the United States to live in the reservation.
 * President James Madison.

= When did the war start? =

June 18, 1812
= When did the war end? =
 * February 16, 1815 **

**Why was there a war?**

Many reasons helped contribute to the war not just impressment (recruitment by force into the military):.
Napoleon Bonaparte caused the British to issue Orders in Council which were done away with on June 16, 1812. Congress was not aware and were about to declare war) to contain France which they knew would cause problems with neutral countries like America. the Orders helped Britain prevent any neutral ships from going to French ports and required them to go to English ports or else they would be searched and possibly taken in 1807.

====Native Americans from the Great Lakes and Ohio formed a confederation to keep Americans away from their lands. The British broke a peace treaty with America when they agreed to help the confederation by keeping border forts in the Great Lakes. The new American union needed to defeat the Native American confederation to maintain credibility and to expand beyond it's borders..====

"Boys" (also called the War Hawks) in the 1811 congress (the Foreign Relations Committee included Henry Clay, John C Calhoun, Joseph Desha, Felix Grundy, John A. Harper and Peter Porter), actively supported war with Canada to expand American territory and to drive out the Native American confederation.

**British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory.**

= How many died? =

** Official reports suggest British losses were 8,600 killed, wounded or missing, while the Americans suffered a total of about 11,300 casualties. **
http://www.warof1812.ca/summary.html

=** How did the war resolve? **= ===** On December 24, 1814, commissioners signed the [|Treaty of Ghent], which would be ratified the following February. Which meant the war of 1812 ends. **===

=** __Pictures__ **=


 * Beginning of the war. **