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The War Of 1812 Authors: Kathlyn gay , Martin gay Book report by: Jacob Blackburn The war of 1812 , also know as the French and Indian war , was one of the first wars that America took place in. The war of 1812 had around 245,000 men in the British army at the beginning of the war, and at the end , roughly 9,000 of those men were killed in the heat of battle. This battle has most likely one of the most famous moments in American history , and that moment would be the birth of our national anthem , the star spangled banner. As the book said " Key watched the flag at the fort that day with anxiety." And I can see why he was full of stress , if the flag fell then that means that America had lost the turning point of the war. There were many
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict between Great Britan and the United States. It lasted roughly two and a half years, and was not an utter bloodbath, nor did it affect anything economically or territorial. Despite there not being a true victor of The War of 1812, the Americans proved to European nations that America was it’s own striving nation, and able to sustain foreign attack. Besides the two large nations, the only losers were the Native Americans residing east of the Mississipi River such as the Shawnee, Potawatomi, and Ojibwa Tribes. In the pivotal years of America’s development, all that the Americans wanted was to expand west, this led to Native American repulsion towards the white settlers.

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The War of 1812 might be one of the least understood wars in most American history classes due to history textbooks leaving out the real impact and outcome of the fight, according to Loewen. The War of 1812 granted Native Americans most of their land, and also made the Native Americans look like “savages” to most European

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Jill Lepore used quotes and images from English colonists and portraits to show how colonists wrote about their experiences during King Philip’s War and how the narrative of the war has changed throughout the centuries. It also sets how colonists will narrate wars for future centuries. She spoked about how their writings of the war had a consequence of temporally silencing the Native Americans version on the war and how people have forgotten or even have any knowledge of the war. She uses a Boston merchant, Nathaniel Saltonstall account tilted “A true but brief account of our losses since this cruel and mischievous war begun” written in July 1676 year after the war had begun. He lists towns such as Narragansett, Warwick, Seekonk and Springfield

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In “The War of 1812 as a Borderland War,” by Alan Taylor, the author discusses the civil war within the War of 1812. Many believe that after the Revolutionary war was over, the United States was set on a path to become what it is today. However, the author discusses just how unstable the country truly was. The people were divided, and many loyalists fled to Canada after the revolutions.

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