Quote Originally Posted by 5speedz34 View Post
What's really pathetic is considering the war was almost our second independence and also really shaped the Great Lakes region yet the federal government does nothing to celebrate it's bicentennial.
We invaded Canada while the Brits were busy fighting Napoleon. It wasn't the "second war of independence" it was the first US war of conquest. The result? our capital was burned, we gained no new territory. Canada kept us out and the Brits almost re-conquered us. We lost the war we started.