War Of 1812
Declared by the United States against Great Britain in
June, 1812. The president in his message to Congress specified the
grounds for war as follows: Non-revocation of the orders-in-council;
interference with American trade; practical blockade of American ports;
impressment of American seamen, and the instigation of Indian
hostilities against the United States. The original intention of the
American government was the
onquest of the British provinces on the
northern border, and several of the most important engagements were
fought on Canadian soil. After severe fighting with varying success, a
treaty of peace was signed at Ghent on Dec. 24, 1814. By this treaty all
territory taken by either country (except some islands on the Bay of
Passamaquoddy) was to be restored. All the American claims that led to
the war were left unsettled by the treaty. =Index=: (Egerton Ryerson era) Loyalty of
Methodists in, 41; its aftermath, 41. (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Services rendered by Papineau,
5. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Stills for the time the internal conflict of races, 8-9. See
also Stoney Creek; Queenston Heights; Chateauguay; Chrystler's Farm;
Beaver Dam; Brock; FitzGibbon; Sheaffe; Van Rensselaer; Hull. =Bib.=:
Lucas, Canadian War of 1812; Richardson, War of 1812; Cruikshank,
Documentary History of the Campaign and Record of the Services of
Canadian Regiments in the War of 1812; Roosevelt, Naval War of 1812;
Auchinleck, War between Great Britain and the United States; Coffin,
1812: the War and its Moral; Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the War
of 1812; Irving, Officers of the British Forces in Canada during the
War of 1812-14; Mahan, Naval War of 1812; Hannay, War of 1812-14.
See also other references in Lit. Am. Hist.