The War of 1812 (18 jun 1812 ano – 24 dez 1814 ano)

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In the years leading up to the war France and Great Britain were already fighting for almost twenty years and this dispute caused the two parties to continuously interrupt one another’s supply routes coming from the US in order to weaken their army. The trade restrictions along with Britain removing sailors from American ships to make them join their Navy was particularly what made the president of the United States claim war with Britain on June 18, 1812.1 The American allied with the French and the Iroquois Confederacy allied with the British for the duration of the war. Throughout the three years of immense battles, not much territory had been covered “by the time of the Treaty of Ghent on 24 December 1814, all sides were pretty much stalemated, borders did not change”2 so there was little to physically show for the battles won on either side.
Although the Iroquois Confederacy was later dismantled, it is likely that because the British supported the Confederacy by helping to fight the French and US from taking control over their land around the Great Lakes at the time that it stayed in British sovereignty and joined the Canadian Confederacy. This moment in Canada's history is important because the Americans were pushing to expand their territory through buying land from the French or using military force if necessary. Without the British and indigenous resistance, the Americans would probably have captured land as far or even farther north than Québec city. The War of 1812 as it known had ended with no one gaining territory but the fact that both sides held their ground would have built a feeling of harmony, strength, and readiness for both sides. The Canadian side being still British ruling, probably felt very unified as a relatively new settlement after the war which would have helped promote colonization.
1. The war of 1812. (2012, May). Scholastic News, 80, 14. Retrieved from http://cyber.usask.ca/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.cyber.usask.ca/docview/1015787069?accountid=14739.
2. Starbuck, David. “Archaeology of the War of 1812,” Historical Archaeology 51, no. 2 (June 2017): 314-316, https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1007/s41636-017-0030-6.

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