War of 1812 (18 июн 1812 г. – 24 дек 1814 г.)

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The War of 1812 was an armed conflict between the United States and the British Empire. The British restricted the American trade since they feared it was harmful for their war with France. They also wanted to set up an Indian state in the Midwest in order to maintain their influence in the region. The Americans objected to the British Empire restricting their trade and snatching their sailors to serve on British ships. During the war, both sides suffered many losses and even the White House was burned down in 1814. The British were quite defensive in the beginning, since they concentrated their military efforts on Napoleonic Wars but after their victory over France in 1814, they started to fight Americans more aggressively. American national pride was boosted by the victories in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 and the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Thanks to those victories the Americans started to call this war “a second war for independence”. The Treaty of Ghent was finally signed on December 24, 1814, and it established the status quo antebellum, which means that nobody lost any territory in the war. The war officially ended on February 17, 1815, when the U.S. Congress ratified the treaty.

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