this is just so that I can access this list outside of the school computers . I need it for homework, so please ignore this board.

The War of 1812


• American forces invade Canada in the July of 1812
• Surrendered Detroit in August of the same year
• Lost Fort Dearborn (Chicago) to Indians
• Slight improvement on the sea, at first
• American frigates won “some spectacular victories” against British ships
• Privateers destroyed/captured many British ships
• Sometimes burned captured ships within sight of the British shore
• In 1813, Britain was not as occupied with fighting Napoleon, so they began attacking and counterattacking in a more effective manner
• British impose a blockade on the American coast in 1813
• America had some success on the Great Lakes
• Took over Lake Ontario
• Burned York (Toronto)
• Took control of Lake Erie, mainly because of Oliver Hazard Perry
• Perry dispersed British fleet at Put-In Bay on 9.10.1813, allowing another invasion of Canada from Detroit
• William Henry Harrison invades upper Canada in the battle where Tecumseh was killed
• The battle demoralized the Indians
• Andrew Jackson attacks Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on 3.27.1814, slaughtering men, women, and children in revenge for Indians attacking white settlers near the Florida border
• England prepares to invade America after Napoleon’s surrender in 1814
• English ships sail into Chesapeake Bay and march to Washington
• British troops invade Washington on 8.24.1814, and burn several buildings, including the White House
• British troops move toward Baltimore
• American forces beat back a British invasion at Plattsburgh-9.11.1814
• Fort McHenry was ready for the coming invasion, and block Boston Harbor with sunken ships
• Francis Scott Key, who, at the time was trying to get an American prisoner released from one of the British ships, noted the flag was still flying after the night of 9.13.1814, and wrote The Star Spangled Banner in awe of the moment
• England withdrew from the harbor
• Jackson is promoted to Major General and seizes the Spanish Fort Pensacola on11.7.1814

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-Brits attack Jackson @ New Orleans --1.8.1815
-Jackson's protected men whupped the exposed Brits
-Brits retreat, leaving 700 dead, including their commander, Sir Edweard Pakenham, 1400 wounded, and 500 prisoners
-Jackson's casualties were 8 dead and 13 wounded
-several weeks later, news comes that America and Britain had signed a treaty to end the war before the Battle of New Orleans
-With a few notable exceptions, the American war effort was a series of "humiliating failures"
-The government faced growing opposition as the war went on
-Opposition in New England was so strong that some Federalists celebrated British victories
-New Hampshire congressman Daniel Webster led the Federalist opposition
- Some Federalists considered seceding and making a nation without the oppression of slaveholders or backwoodsmen
-talk of secession peaked in the winter of 1814-1815
-At Hartford convention, secessionists were outnumbered, but seven amendments were proposed
-After convention adjourned, news of Jackson's New Orleans victory reached New England
-A few days after that, news of the Treaty of Ghent reached NE
-Failure to secede was a "virtual death blow" to Federalists
-Peace talks had begun even before the war began in 1812
-Serious negotiations began in Ghent in 1814, with John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin negotiating for America
-the Treaty was signed 12.24.1814
-British reason to accept: they were still sorely in debt from fighting Napoleon
-American reason to accept: knew that, with Napoleon's downfall, the British had no reason to interfere with America's trade
-A treaty in 1815 let America trade with England and most of the British Empire
-Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817 made everyone disarm along the Great lakes
-The Treaty of Ghent had no lasting impact on the Indians east of the Mississippi
-Treaty required U.S. to restore seized lands, but that was never enforced

yeah, I probably should get one...

You should get a flash drive. They're like $20 and they are the most convenient things in the entire world...I've got a keyring on mine, so I always have it with me...