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[[File:Francis-Scott-Key_9189.jpg|thumb|400px|The American view of the war: "Oh say! Can you see?'']] |
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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. |
[[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. |
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