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It's AMAZING to me sometimes how Americans think.
See where I grew up (Canada) we were always taught that the US declared war on British North America (Canada) and we fought back with a everything we had and a few British Regulars who could be spared from the war with Napolean, and a whole bunch of first nations warriors who wanted nothing to do with Uncle Sam having seen what you guys did to their brothers and beat your asses back across the boarder.
You see, it was the USA after all who declared war, not the Brits. They were too busy fighting Napolean to be so stupid as to start a war thousands of miles away.
There isn't a Canadian kid alive who doesn't know the name General Issac Brock or Tecumseh the first nations warrior chief.
Strangely enough, as soon as the Brits polished off Napolean and could turn the full fury of their military on those gob-fly Americans, you yanks sued for peace. But not before we burned the white house to the ground and President Madison ran away dressed as a woman into the hills of Virginia.
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Yes and no. If you want to get into it the US warhawks wanted to declare war because they wanted Canada, something denied during the Revolution. So they used the FACT that the Brits would stop US merchant ships, and force OUR sailors to fight for them against the French, which is definately an act of war. So we declared war first while they enacted it.
Yeah we got defeated accross the border, and had Washington burned, but in no way was the Republic in serious danger. The Brits didnt have enough people, and by the end of it when they tried to run up the Mississippi on us we sent them back to the sea. Did we win? No. Did we lose? No. Was it a stupid war? Yes.