War of 1812 Update!
Keeping HIST 2111 Students "in the Know!"
On to the War of 1812 and Jacksonian America!
We are moving on to the War of 1812 and Jacksonian America! It has been said that the War of 1812 was the "2nd War of Independence" and they are technically right! While we didn't gain land or wealth from this war, we did assert our "separateness" from Britain---a thing that the Americans had not fully appreciated and a fact that the British had ignored since the Revolution!
James Madison
He didn't really want to go to war. He avoided it at all costs, but he couldn't avoid it in the end.
Dolley Madison
The First Lady credited with saving the George Washington portrait when the British were invading and burning Washington.
Andrew Jackson
The War of 1812 military hero who fought the best battle of the war at New Orleans and set up his future based on his military heroism. (The Battle of New Orleans was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the war (December 1814. He fought the battle in January of 1815 because he didn't know that the war was over!)
More War of 1812 Information!
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