Principal Campaigns War of 1812

1812-06-18/1815-02-16

The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 16 February 1815) was a conflict fought between the United States and its Indigenous allies, and Great Britain, its dependent colonies in North America, Indigenous allies and Spain.[f] The conflict formally began when the United States declared war on 18 June 1812, and officially ended with the 24 December 1814 Treaty of Ghent. The controversies that led to war centred on US national honour. They all included reference to the economic and trade disputes between America, Britain, and France that first led to the Franco-American Quasi-War, and then to the Anglo-American War of 1812. Primary causes of the War of 1812 involved the Royal Navy stopping and seizing American ships on the open sea and impressing men as British subjects including those with American citizenship certificates.[10][g] Meanwhile, the British were outraged by the 1811 Little Belt affair. The British aided indigenous tribes of the Old Northwest to slow US citizen settlement on land ceded by the British to the US in the Anglo-American 1783 Treaty of Paris, and ceded by Indian tribes recognized by the British and Americans in the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, and in the 1803-04 Treaty of Vincennes. Starting in 1810 Britain urged and even armed Tecumseh's confederacy to wage war on the American settlements that had been reaffirmed as US sovereign and independent territory in the 1794 Jay's Treaty.

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