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The [[War of 1812]] (1812-1815) is the most popular war ever to grace the Americas. Americans think they won it; the Canadians think ''they'' won it, and the British have ''no idea'' they fought it. In the US it has been called 'The Second Revolutionary War'; in Canada it is remembered as the war in which Canada stopped the US trying to Annex them, and like we said, the British don't even know it happened. In fact, no-one outside North America knows it happened. This is because an altogether more expensive, expansive, ideologically charged, bloody and ''important'' series of wars had been going on elsewhere for some time. There were more men on the field when General Bonaparte won at Austerlitz in 1805, for instance, than there were English-speaking soldiers in all of the Americas in 1815. These conflicts were the French Revolutionary and [[Napoleonic Wars]], which basically concern the failed attempts of France to alternately defend itself against and dominate all of Europe.

Not to be confused with [[Napoleon Bonaparte|the other]] [[Tsarist Russia|war of 1812]].

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Battlefield success launched the presidential careers of William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Used in several major battles.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: A major part of military tactics at the time, but more often utilized by American forces, as Canadian forces couldn't afford the possible losses. The British [[Too Dumb to Live|tried it ''twice'' against ''artillery'' at New Orleans.]]

** To be fair, they literally had no way to go around the artillery.

* The [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' has this time period as its point of divergence. [[Thomas Jefferson]] dies early in 1809, leading to war tensions ramping up earlier, a "War of 1811", and New England [[Divided States of America|seceding]] as a result, taking New York and New Jersey with it. The war ends with a British/Yankee [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomp victory]] that sees Chicago (sorry, [[Istanbul Not Constantinople|Dearborn]]) becoming Canadian and Michigan becoming New England territory.

* An episode of ''[[Due South]]'' has a Canadian general reference a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] that the Canadians won during this war. A battle that the American police chief he was yelling at never heard of.