Joshua Singh`

What was the war even about?

Britain was going through a was with France

Britain interference with US international trade

Boarder disputes between United States, Canada,

and Britain

Significant EventsCapital BurnedBritish came and

burned the Capital Building on August

24, 1814.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-capital-captured.aspx

“Every American heart is bursting with shame and indignation at the catastrophe.”

—Baltimore resident describing the burning of Washington, 1814

The British burn Washington, DC in retaliation for the burning of York. President James Madison flees the Capital.

http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/classroom/timeline/

“the troops advanced forthwith into the town, and The British burn the White House having first put to the sword all who were found in the house from which the shots were fired, and reduced it to ashes, they proceeded, without 'a moment's delay, to

burn and destroy everything in the most distant degree connected with government. In this general devastation were included the Senate House, the President's

palace,....

...Of the Senate house, the President's palace, the barracks, the dockyard, etc., nothing could be seen except heaps of smoking ruins."

Gleig, George Robert, A History of the Campaigns of the British at Washington and New Orleans (1826)

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm

Star Spangle Banner

Written by Francis Scott after the Battle of Baltimore

Battle of Baltimore

•fought at Baltimore Maryland, a vital seaport•british bombed fort McHenry•bombing lasted for 25 hours http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/baltimore-in-the-balance.aspx

“Then in that hour of deliverance and joyful triumph, my heart

spoke.”—Francis Scott Key recalling the morning of September 14, 1814

September 14, 1814

‘American Identity’

“the conflict helped establish the credibility of the young United States

among other nations.”

Showed America could stand up to ‘the big nations’

(http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-war-of-1812.aspx

)

“the conflict ended with the Treaty of Ghent in 1815.”

(http://www.history.com/topics/war-of-1812

)

International trade (neutral rights (achieved 1856, treaty of paris))

Both sides ‘evenly matched’

Showed America could stand up to ‘the big nations’

America survived going against the world’s ‘super power’International trade (neutral

rights (achieved 1856, treaty of paris))

“Although its events inspired one of the nation’s most famous patriotic songs, the War of 1812 is a relatively little-known war in

American history. Despite its complicated causes and inconclusive outcome, the conflict helped establish the credibility of the young United States among other nations. It fostered a strong sense of national pride among the American people, and those patriotic

feelings are reflected and preserved in the song we know today as the U.S. national anthem.”

Britain interfered with US international trade, so war was declared.

(http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-war-of-1812.aspx)