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President Madison offered France and Great Britain a deal.
President Madison said "that if you stop attacking US ships we'll stop trading with your enemy." -
Battle of Tippecanoe Creek
It was lead by Governor Harrison. It was near present day Lafayette. -
British attacked Washington D.C. and burned Capitol and White House.
On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812. -
The day Commander Hazard Perry caputered a British fleet on Lake Erie with the US Naval
It was fought by Ohio.9 vessels of United States captured 6 vessels of the British. -
Battle of Thames River
On October 5, 1813, General William Henry Harrison, who also was the governor of the Indiana Territory and a future president of the United States of America, led an army of 3,500 American troops against a combined force of eight hundred British soldiers and five hundred American Indian warriors at Moraviantown -
British attack Baltimore
On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on England, then the greatest power on earth, to preserve "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights." The British, while at war with France, had interfered with U.S. trade and had boarded American ships to force sailors into service on their ships. -
Battle of new Orleans
January 8, 1815, the two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements. In the bloody Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson and a motley assortment of militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians and even pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way. -
Napoleon's defeat in Europe allowing more British troops.
It was fought near present day Belgium. Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition.