War of 1812

War of 1812
Clockwise from top: damage to the U.S. Capitol after the Burning of Washington; the mortally wounded Isaac Brock spurs on the York Volunteers at the battle of Queenston Heights; USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere; The death of Tecumseh in 1813 ends the Indian armed struggle in the American Midwest; Andrew Jackson defeats the British assault on New Orleans.
Date June 18, 1812 – February 18, 1815 (2 years and 8 months) Location Eastern and Central North America, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Result Treaty of Ghent; Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes Military stalemate United States invasions of British Canada repulsed Defeat of Tecumseh's Confederacy British invasions of the United States repulsed Anglo-Spanish troops forced out of Pensacola, Spanish Florida Majority of Great Lakes falls under American control
Belligerents
United States Native Americans Choctaw Cherokee Creeks	British Empire United Kingdom The Canadas Tecumseh's Confederacy (until 1813) Shawnee Creek Red Sticks Ojibwe Fox Iroquois Miami Mingo Ottawa Kickapoo Delaware (Lenape) Mascouten Potawatomi Sauk Wyandot Spain (1813) Florida
Commanders and leaders
James Madison Henry Dearborn Jacob Brown Winfield Scott Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison William H. Winder  (POW) William Hull  (POW) Zebulon Pike †	Lord Liverpool Sir George Prévost Sir Isaac Brock † Gordon Drummond Charles de Salaberry Roger Hale Sheaffe Robert Ross † Edward Pakenham † Tecumseh †
Strength
United States U.S. Army: 7,000 (at war's start) 35,800 (at war's end) Rangers: 3,049 Militia: 458,463* U.S. Marines U.S. Navy and Revenue Cutter Service (at war's start): Frigates: 6 Other vessels: 14 Native allies: 125 Choctaw unknown others	British Empire British Army 5,200 (at war's start) 48,160 (at war's end) Provincial regulars: 10,000 Militia: 4,000 Royal Marines Royal Navy Ships of the line: 11 Frigates: 34 Other vessels: 52 Provincial Marine (at war's start):‡ Ships: 9 Native allies: 10,000
Casualties and losses
2,200 killed in action 4,505 wounded 15,000 (est.) died from all causes	1,160 killed in action 3,679 wounded 3,321 died from disease
* Some militias operated in only their own regions.  † Killed in action  ‡ A locally raised coastal protection and seminaval force on the Great Lakes.

Treaty of Ghent; Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes

 United States

2,200 killed in action

1,160 killed in action

The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. Historians in the United States and Canada see it as a war in its own right, but the British often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars. By the war's end in early 1815, the key issues had been resolved and peace returned with no boundary changes.

The United States declared war for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressment of as many as 10,000 American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support for Native American tribes fighting European American settlers on the frontier, outrage over insults to national honor during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, and interest in the United States in expanding its borders west. The British government, which felt it had done everything in its power to try to avert the war, were dismayed by the American declaration, and believed it to have been an opportunistic ploy by President Madison to annex Canada while Britain was fighting a ruinous war with France. The view was shared in much of New England and for that reason the war was widely referred to there as Mr Madison’s War. As a result, the primary British war goal was to defend their North American colonies.

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