![]() The same states of the southern and western United States also considered capturing British North America easy pickings and the next logical step after the Revolutionary War. The Western States of the Union would have nothing of this British conspiracy to encircle them and prevent westward expansion, wanting nothing more than to drive the Indians out and open up the Mississippi territory to white settlement. The British Cabinet viewed with favour the establishment of a neutral state of American Indian peoples in the Mississippi territory, but didn't actually have enough confidence in their fighting ability to back them, though they did sell them some weapons. Seeing this, the 'War-Hawk' generation suspected a British conspiracy to prevent American westward expansion, and clamoured for war with Britain. The traders who actually owned the ships in question didn't mind - they were raking it in and entry into the war was the last thing they wanted - but a new generation of Americans who had not experienced the hardships of The American Revolution and its aftermath were eager to prove their worth and wage a Second American War of Independence to drive the British from the continent.įar to the south, in the Federal territory of Mississippi, the Indian tribes were uniting under a charismatic new leader Tecumseh. The facts were, the Royal Navy was ignoring the sovereignty of the United States, which had real troubles being taken seriously as a country abroad (and, to a certain extent, at home). ![]() Virtually all of these men actually were deserters from the Royal Navy, but that was besides the point. Some ten thousand men were thus taken from American merchant vessels and pressed into RN service. As a result, Royal Navy began to conscript sailors into the navy in British ports and began to search US vessels they encountered for deserters - easily identifiable by their RN tattoos. Moreover, the expansion of the Royal Navy left them short of sailors. After their sound victory at Trafalgar in 1805, the British were suddenly in a much better position to confiscate American trade bound for France - and they did just that. Both sides had declared an embargo upon each other, and commissioned privateers and used their navies to raid each others' shipping. Traders in the US had become rich from war-profiteering basically, selling to both sides in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. ![]() The causes of the war basically boil down to the knock-on effects of the Napoleonic Wars. 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. 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. This is because an altogether more expensive, expansive, ideologically charged, bloody and important series of wars had been going on elsewhere for some time. In fact, no-one outside North America knows it happened. 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. Americans think they won it the Canadians think they won it, and the British have no idea they fought it. The War of 1812 (1812-1815) is the most popular war ever to grace the Americas. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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