Dense forests that surrounded the chesapeake. They feared being ambushed, they feared american riflemen, they didnt know where an attack might be coming from and they didnt know in what numbers and they simply did not know the lay of the land. And thats very inhibiting on the british and when you read the letters of their captains and admirals during 1813, they are full of mystery and fear about the interior. Just a mile or two beyond where they could make their landings. So they are very skittish and they are not all that effective. So despite the miseries that they do inflict on a fair number of americans during the campaign of 1813, that campaign closes with a sense of frustration by British Naval commanders in the chesapeake. They have not achieved their principle goal, which was to make life so miserable for the people of virginia and maryland that their government would call off their envisiinappropriate i. Far from it. The United States is planning yet again to pursue an invasio
Enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. On this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. This really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. The war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. In fact, it wouldnt be fought by 200,000 men all told. As 1813 began James Madison knew that napoleon had lost. His army was in full retreat. Indeed, it was in complete collapse. He had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. They had lost. Now what was going to happen . This also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. Those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. The british picked out the right ships and the ri
Considerations. He was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. He had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. Especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. He understood are that the federal system was fragmented. And preserving the union required negotiation. The war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. And in many ways it didnt succeed. Westerners made off better than the other regions they didnt get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. The english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the United States had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. The war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government, distant gove
How to fight. Were eager to be on british as you know the United States naval warships. Opened the conflict with what should have been a threepronged offensive into what is now canada and a surge of war ships and privateers into the western they were fleeing to seek refuge during 1813, unlike the British Atlantic to cut britains economic lifelines. Deserter who anticipated a the canadian frontier became the better life in the republic, the main military theater and for three years heavily outnumbered former slave didnt want to go back to the republic. British regulars and canadian militia and warriors defended so they did not desert. As marines, they could be the border. Deployed to watch the white they had some troops into the sailors and pursue deserters. Canadian theater and they came from the west indies and not admiral coburn sought to replace from europe. Many of his White Marines with black recruits. And until after the end of the napoleonic conflict. As long as napoleon remaine
Killed or by their wounds. In other words, they died as a direct result of combat in the war. I did some calculations, and i found that in fact about 10 more of the army died of disease, sickness, and other causes that are not directly related to battle. They were simply a product of the very unhealthy nature of military camps, the inability to provide decent sanitation, these sorts of things, which diseases, if they got into an arm camp, they could go through and take a very heavy toll on life substantially more men died as a result of disease, sickness. And then theres a bit of colateral damage that occurs that millyisha die as a result of the british raids of the sort weve been talking about. We might estimate that 15,000, 16,000 americans died one way or another as a result of the war of 1812. The indians suffered i think proportionately higher percentage of lossesle we dont know precisely, because we dont have good figures for indian population, but of course the numbers that the