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War of 1812

By ecrouse
  • President Madison offering France and Great Britain a deal.

    President Madison said "that if you stop attacking US ships we'll stop trading with your enemy."
  • The battle of Tippecanoe Creek

    It was lead by Gonerner Harrison. It was near presante day Lafayette
  • British attack Baltimore

    On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on England, then the greatest power on earth, to preserve "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights." The British, while at war with France, had interfered with U.S. trade and had boarded American ships to force sailors into service on their ships.
  • The day the US Navel Commander Oliver Hazard Perry captured a British fleet on Lake Erie

    It was fought by Ohio 9 vessels captured 6 vessels of the British
  • Battle of Thames River

    Battle of the Thames, also called Battle of Moraviantown , (Oct. 5, 1813), in the War of 1812, decisive U.S. victory over British and Indian forces in Ontario, Canada, enabling the United States to consolidate its control over the Northwest.
  • British attack Washington D.C. and burned the capital and the white house.

    On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    The Battle of New Orleans was an engagement fought between January 8 and January 18, 1815, constituting the final major battle of the War of 1812, and the most one-sided battle of that war.
  • Napoleon's defeated in Europe allowing more British troop

    It was near present-day Belgium. Napolean was defeated by two of the armies of the senventh coalition.