A few Reasons the War of 1812

A few reasons The War of 1812 abrupted between the French and British against the United States was a part of the warfare and American outrage at the British. Once the Chesapeake incident of 1807 happened In response to the 1806 British Orders in Council, that made American trade unfit. The United States of America under Thomas Jefferson, 1st tried numerous revengeful embargoes. This hurt the United States making Americans angry and providing support to War Hawks in Congress. In 1812, United States President Madison declared war against Britain.

The war started with an assault on Canada, to get land and to take off British supply lines to Tecumseh's Indian confederation, which troubled the United Sates. The initial fights in Canada was not a piece of cake as the War Hawks thought, and the unexperienced American troopers were pushed back. British troops arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1814, and went towards Washington. General William Winder tried to stop the British powers, directed by General Robert Ross at Bladensburg. The city of Washington was cleared, and the British destroyed the Capitol and the White House, alongside the vast majority of nonresidential Washington.

By 1814, the war ended up being a harder battle than both sides thought. Britain, went quick into the Napoleonic Wars, then started to search for a way to remove themselves from its American promise. American peacekeepers, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay met with British diplomats. After disagreeing, they signed off the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814, formally finishing the war. The Treaty returned US-Britain relations to a similar status as they had been before the war. The US didn't gain nor lost any territory.

The war was finally finished, yet news traversed way over the Atlantic Ocean. In New Orleans, Cochrane handled the British troops, who were all waiting for their second hand commander for Ross, General Packenham, to come through from Britain. On January 8, 1815, Andrew Jackson's ragtag armed force crushed the British at the Battle of New Orleans. Despite the fact that this fight had been pointless because the treaty was already signed so the United States celebrated, showing an growth in American patriotism.

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