War of 1812 was about

Answer 1

The Republican party in the colonies wanted to wage war against Great Britain,but had no navy to speak of , they could not face Britians 1,000 war ships,so they wanted to invade Canada,and take it over,mostly for land speclulators, and sooth the settlers who couldn't advance past the Indian territories. They used the excuse that the British were taking American seamen (many were originally British subjects) and whipping them. The Republicans made the "whipping" of white men abhorrent and played it up in their papers to stir sentiment for war. Even though the U.S. Army,and Navy routinely whipped their people, and it was fine for colonist to whip black and Indian slaves, the Republicans never mentioned any of this. It was beyond evil to whip white people. Many dichotomies here, especially since the British forbade slavery, there was none in Canada. The Americans rembered the blundering British in the Revolution, however now Britain had the best trained fighting force in the world, tested by many years fighting Napolean, and other foes. It started badly from the beginning, evil motives by the Americans, mis- judgment of the British. Republicans appointed Hull to invade Upper Canada to take it over, they thought it was going to be a party. Hull was a drunk, and gutless leader,who depended on numbers,he had more than 2,500 men. He surrendered to Brock without firing a shot! Republican war sentiment reigns today,as yesteryear, history keeps repeating itself. We can't keep our nose out of other countries business, only now we are a government run by the military, with over 1,000 bases around the world, spending us to oblivion. It's amazing we never learn from history.