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To: Snowshoe who wrote (91637)	6/18/2012 12:08:22 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 219523

War of 1812 bicentennial: US shrugs as Canada goes all out stripes.com The war killed the idea of America as an agrarian nation with a weak military, static borders and a quasi-isolationist foreign policy. President Jefferson had tried to withdraw the nation from European trade to avoid war, and he was notoriously suspicious of manufacturing and its attendant "wage slavery." Yet after what Brunsman calls "the war's near death experience" — Army humbled, Navy bottled up, capital sacked — "even the party of Jefferson and Madison realizes that it's not enough to be an agrarian power, that the country needs to make things. It needs to be more like Britain." That included a strong military. Winfield Scott, a young Army officer, was taken prisoner in the disaster at Queenston Heights. When the war was over, he and other veterans reformed the Army to avoid a repetition of the mistakes they'd seen. The war established that the United States would not expand into Canada and would grow west and south. The defeat of Britain's Creek Indian allies cleared the way for the spread of slave-based cotton planting into Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi and set the stage for the Civil War.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (91637)	6/18/2012 3:05:38 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219523

My ancestor en.wikipedia.org did his bit against the british imperialist pig dogs during the American revolutionary war The folks who talk freedom fries and saving France from Germany forget that America may well still have a queen but for the freedom-loving French who gifted America w/ a bit more than a metal lady But of course, had the French done better, Canada would have 50 more provinces.