Essay On The War Of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815 (Findling, 15). When the war began, it was being fought by the Americans to address their grievances toward the British, though toward the end, the issues eventually were unjustified and reasons manipulated. There is no single cause for the War of 1812 but instead, several related causes, such the influence of the War Hawks, the impressments as well as the Embargo and Non-Intercourse acts, and the British's possible interference with the Indian Nations, and land ownership disputes between the Natives and Americans, ultimately leading to the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The War of 1812 has always been a part of American history not very exiting to learn about for most Americans. It was a tumultuous time for the New Republic and some of the battles of the war shamed the new nation. The War of 1812 did not have the same glorious, honorable, and just cause of the American Revolution. The British made fools of the American people and even burned the Capitol and the White House, the centers of American politics, to the ground. However as shameful as the war was, it also had some good benefits and it demonstrated to Great Britain and the rest of the world that the United States of America was its own sovereign nation, and not some British Sphere of Influence. Although the treaty of Ghent failed to address

     Public outrage over the issue of impressments grew increasingly vocal after an incident between the American naval frigate Chesapeake and a British vessel, the Leopard. In June 1807 the Leopard approached the Chesapeake only a few miles off the American coast and demanded to search the ship for British deserters. The Chesapeake’s commander, James Barron, refused, and the Leopard opened fire. A number of American sailors were killed or wounded during the attack, and the Chesapeake surrendered. The British then sent a party aboard and dragged four crewmen from the vessel. After the incident, Jefferson ordered British warships to leave American waters

The War of 1812 was started by America due to British encroachment on three fronts, trade restrictions imposed by the British, the increasing alliances of the British with Indian tribes blocking American expansion West, and due to British interference with merchant class ships in the Atlantic. The war was fought in the Great Lakes region between America and Canada, near New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Atlantic trade routes, and around Washington DC. The British had always considered the American insurrection in the 1770s to be a temporary event, their continued battles within the European continent as well as the rest of the British empire had proven to be too distracting to keep a solid check on North America. The British also had not anticipated a war in North America in the lead up to the war of 1812 due to the fragility of the American states, leading to the hubris Britain retained in its relations with the young United States of America.

One cause of the War of 1812 was Britain’s impressment of American soldiers and incapability to acknowledge American neutrality rights. Impressment was the act of Britain’s Royal Navy of sending officers to U.S. ships, inspecting the crew, and seizing sailors who were accused of being escapees from British ships. The British used impressment because the Royal Navy was on a war footing and need all the sailors it could obtain. Impressment was more commonly known as “press gangs” and was regularly recruitment by force. Between 1803 and 1812, around 6,000

For many years Great Britain and France violated the United States’ neutral shipping rights by confiscating American ships and impressing American sailors. Impressment was the practice of removing sailors and requiring them to serve the Royal Navy by force. The Chesapeake incident on June 22, 1807 made America realize something had to be done. The HMS Leopard, an English naval vessel, requested permission to board the Chesapeake, a smaller American naval vessel, to search the sailors for Royal Navy. The commander of the Chesapeake denied permission to the HMS Leopard, at which point the HMS Leopard opened fire on the Chesapeake resulting in killing three, injuring eighteen and impressing four American soldiers. Because of this incident U.S President Thomas Jefferson, announce the Embargo Act.

The war of 1812 was a military attack a long time ago. It ended on February 18th, 1815. The United States declared war for many reasons, trade limitation created by the British war with France, and British support for Native American groups attacking European American settlers on the border, interest in the United States in expanding its borders west, and many more. The war was fought in three locations. First, at sea, attacking one another's ship.

The British were stealing and interfering with American trading rights. They would steal the American vessels from their destined ports and steer them to British ports instead. This occurred because the British did not like that their commerce was not favored during the trading. Along with capturing the vessels, they would also capture the seamen, merchants, and sailors on board of the vessel. They would enslave the seamen.

This act was the practice of seizing Americans at the sea and impressing them or in this case forcing them into the British Navy without actually knowing what they thought. With intolerable instance of the war then came the Chesapeake incident which also happen by the British ship the attack was made because the American commander refused to permit his vessel to be searched for deserter. The head of a British warship proclaimed to investigate the United States Naval for the British. The U.S director stood up and repelled. The British got furious and open fire, causing a lot of damage and injuries.

As Hickey states, “its government issued a series of decrees that restricted U.S. trade with France and the rest of Europe. At the same time, the Royal Navy stepped up its practice of impressment: forcibly taking sailors from American merchant vessels to serve on its own undermanned warships…They were subjugated to all the harsh discipline,

The War of 1812 is not easily remembered to the United States and the British. The people that were mostly affected were the Canadians and the Indians. To them, the War of 1812 was a symbol of freedom or a symbol of no freedom. The United States was a new, developing nation after the American Revolution.

The War of 1812 was a war between the United States and Great Britain after the American Revolution that happened in 1765 to 1783. The Treaty of Paris officially marked the end of the American Revolution. It represented the freedom of the 13 colonies and it also established the boundaries of the United States and Great Britain. The british agreed to stop interfering with the United States all together but did not uphold their promise and continued to interfere with America's shipping and trading route. That was the main causes of the War of 1812 because even though the british on June 16th, 1812 promised to stop interfering James Madison, who was President of the United States thought that the only way for Great Britain to truly stop was to go to war. Many legislators in Congress who represented rural areas voted for war and that was the first time that Congress declared war. The other causes of the war of 1812 were, that the British were practicing impressment of U.S. seamen and forcing them in the navy or the military to serve for Great Britain. The British also encouraged Native Americans to attack the U.S. as they tried to expand west and gain more territory.

In June of 1812, under President James Madison’s administration, US congress declared war on Britain. Reasons that lead to this declaration of war were led by a compelling motivation to uphold national dignity in face of what the Americans perceived as British insult. The British attempted to restrict the highly profitable American trade with Napoleonic France. The British Royal navy seized American sailors, ships and cargo under the act of impressment (A Guide to the War of 1812). The British forcibly removed the Americans from their ships and were forced them to serve on British vessels. British government claimed that the mariners were defectors from the Royal navy even though the majority had American citizenship documents on their person.

The two views of the War of 1812 conflict with each other in many ways. The British has one view on this war. They have the belief that they stopped the Americans from trading with France during the Napoleonic wars. They set up a blockade with only about fifteen percent of their navy. Donald R. Hickey said

The War of 1812 was a series of conflicts not only that the United States was dealing with, but two other countries were also a huge concern for an upbringing of the war within the United States and leading to the country’s involvement as well. The two enemy countries as always being France and Britain were once again fighting each other, but now the United States was caught in the middle of the heat and was dealing with a naval blockade that could not be fought with. According to Andrew Lambert, writer of “A British Perspective on the War of 1812” the British were already fighting a war with France near Napoleon Bonaparte’s final years; with such a powerful person like him in command of the French, the British forces had little naval force to spare going against the Unites states and left them to resort to a blockade against the United States that would result in America’s struggle to build their economy through trading with France, being neutral with France, leaving France low supplied and low lumbered in an army and leaving Canada vulnerable to be attacked. Lambert also mentioned that with such chaotic