And Some More War ...

And the War of 1812 erupts in North America ....

Yes, I actually remember learning about it (a real surprise there!)! 

Even though the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution, Britain and the United States hate each other. A LOT. Anyways, their relationship is full of tension, anger, and hate. The most significant events that have helped increase the tensions were the :  impressment, blockade, First Nations Allies and the War Hawks. I, myself will explain the stories of all those events and will be blogging during the War of 1812, giving you all the latest scoop and the juiciest news before anybody else!

IMPRESSMENT

1793, Britain's main priority was to win the war (yet ANOTHER war ...) against France and were worried that the French troops would sail across the English Channel so that they decided to strengthen their navy to protect their land by sea. The British ships were ... not in the best condition so a LOT of sailors ditched and went to the American merchant navy. Britain ... not very happy. They started stopping American ships to see if there were any people there that had originally ditched Britain. I find it REALLY FUNNY that they are that desperate. Then sometimes they were forcing Americans sailors into service. Of course by then the Americans were raging (no surprise there!)!

BLOCKADE

The British decided that they used its navy to blockade Europe. It (purposely) stopped many countries from trading with France and was designed to hurt the French only. The Americans were not happy because THEIR economy was faltering due to loss of market (for importing goods).

FIRST NATIONS

The Americans do not like Britain or the First Nations. What happened was after the American Revolution, the First Nations were encouraged to keep their large territory for themselves and it stopped the American ground from growing. They also believe that he British encouraging them to be hostile to them and that they support efforts to protect First Nations' land.

WAR HAWKS

Now this one is the most influential of them all. The war hawks were a group of politicians (American) that believed they should expand their borders and that Canada was just in the way. They also believed that they should simply take over this land. President James Madison was very influenced by them that on June 19,, he declared war on Britain.

That was my news report on the war. Stay tuned for the next post filled with all of the news you can find only here.