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President Madison takes office
James Madison took office for the U.S. Britian was raged. Madison was also angry about the impressiment of American soldiers by the British. Like the other presidents, Madison was trying to avoid war. -
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The War of 1812
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War Hawks Take Power
The war Hawks were the Britain people who were eager with war. These War Hawks stong supporters were Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. All of the War Hawks had a plan to start a war with America, only because they knew it would harm American Trade. -
Congress Declares War on Britain
Around June of 1812, congress declared war on Britain. While the Americans and British were at war, the British were also at war with Europe.When the war had began, the Americans were positive that they would win. Soon it became apparent that the Americans were not prepared. With all of Jeffersons cuts, the American Militarys' strenght was weekened. The navy wan't ready, they only had 16 warships. The army was very small, with only 7,000 men. Then the war had ended. -
Relations With Great Britain Worsen
The realtions with Great Britain worsened in the early months of 1812. Around the beginning of Spring, Britain had warned the Americans on how they planned to continue impressing soldiers. The Native Americans in the Northwest began to use new attacks on many frontier settlements. Around June, congress declared war on Britain. -
America iis not Ready for war
America was not ready for war. They were short on battleships, and also men. The British navy had around 135 warships blocking Americas' ports. After the British had re-enforced theri troops, they were able to close off all of Americas trading ports. -
Britain Blockades American Ports
Some reasons that Britain wanted to shut off their ports for trading goods with other countries. They did this only because they were in mid-war. Closing off the ports would make Americans mad, and that's what they wanted to do. The British were zble to completley cut off traing ports by the end of the war. -
Invasion of Canada
Even beofre the war had began, the British wanted and had planned to invade Canada. The British had expected the Canadians to welcome a chance of throwing off the British Rule.General Isaac Brock took advantage of Hull's confusion. The British later then captured more than 2,000 American Soldiers. -
USS Constitution scores a victory
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Second Battle of Sackets Harbor
A British force was transported across Lake Ontario, and also tried to capture the town too. Ontario was the principal dockyard and also the base for American naval squadron. In the early days of war, the British had taken complete control of the Great Lakes. There were four commanders and leaders. By the end of the war, it had resulted in an American Victory! -
Battle of Lake Erie
The battle of Lake Erie was a rough battle. A three hour battle had taken placde in Put-In-Bay, in the western part of the lake. During this battle the American Flag was badly damaged. The American commander at this time, had decided to switch ships and continue to fight till the battle was won. Commander Oliver Hazard Perry had announced the victory yery dramticaly. -
Battle of Thames
Native Americans had also suffered from the defeat in the south. Duing the summer of 1813, the creek warriors attacked several different American Settlements. Andrew Jackson took command of American Forces in Georiga. -
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
In march of 1814,more than 1,000 Creek warriors were assembled behind a barricade that crossed the neck of the peninsula. In the toe of the peninsula, in Tohopeka Village, were another 500 women and children. Other troops surrounded the toe of the peninsula on the opposite side of the river to prevent a Creek retreat and to keep reinforcements from reaching the Red Sticks. For the first two hours of the battle, cannon shot plunged into the barrier, injuring the men behind it. -
Battle of Fort Oswego
Yeo's squadron embarked the landing force and set out from Kingston late on 3 May. They arrived off Oswego early in the morning, on 5 May. The troops prepared to land shortly after midday, but a southerly breeze sprang up, which made it impossible for Yeo's ships to get close enough to the shore to provide support from their guns. -
Washington, D.C Attacked and Burned
The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an armed conflict during the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, led by General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg.After the defeat and exile of Napoleon Bonaparte in April 1814, the British were able to collect newly available troops and ships to prosecute. -
Attack on Baltimore & the Wiriting of the Star Spangled Banner
The original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song that would become our national anthem, is among the most treasured artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Battle of Baltimore was a combined sea/land battle fought between British and American forces in the War of 1812. It was one of the turning points of the war as American forces repulsed sea and land invasions of the busy port ci -
The Battle of Plattsburgh
he Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. A British army under Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost and a naval squadron under Captain George Downie converged on the lakeside town of Plattsburgh, which was defended by American troops under Brigadier General Alexander Macomb and ships commanded by Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough. Downie's squadron attacked shortly after dawn on 11,Sept. 18. -
Hartford Convention
in U.S. history, a secret meeting of Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, at Hartford, Conn., inspired by Federalist opposition to President James Madison’s mercantile policies and the War of 1812. The convention adopted a strong states’ rights position and expressed its grievances in a series of resolutions against military conscription and commercial regulations. -
The Treaty of Ghent
An agreement in Belgium between Great Britain and the United States to end the War of 1812 on the general basis of the status quo antebellum (maintaining the prewar conditions). Because the military positions for each side were so well balanced, neither country could obtain desired concessions. No mention was made in the peace settlement of neutral rights, particularly concerning the impressment of seamen—one of the prime reasons the United States had gone to war. -
Battle of New Orleans
Following the passage of forts Jackson and St. Philip, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, on April 24, 1862, the Union occupation of New Orleans was inevitable. Union Flag-Officer David G. Farragut, with his squadron, continued up the Mississippi River and demanded the surrender of the City of New Orleans the next day. The city surrendered on April 28. On May 1, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler’s army began landing at New Orleans and occupying the city.
