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That would be British Canada in 1812 it was a British colony at the time not a free nation and at that time territory used by an enemy of the United Sates so it was not a stupid strategy.Also the British where threatening American trade prior to the war and these actions where the primary cause of the conflict.
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Most of he primary causes of the war were settled before the war started, those that were not settled before the war started were still not settled when both sides called it a draw (or in "military terms" a waste of time) in their peace treaty.
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Actually the US was ill prepared for the start yet we did still win the war you don't have to win every battle:
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It was ill prepared at the start even though Madison and Congress had been planning it for a whole year before they declared whereas Britain was commited elsewhere and totally unprepared on that front. And they didn't win, it says so in the peace treaty of status quo which your government agreed to.
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The War of 1812 gave a dramatic boost to the manufacturing capabilities of the United States.
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what has a wartime boost to domestic manufacturing got to do with the devestation of its international trade?
Plus of course the temporary boost in domestic manufacturing for local consumption led to a post war slump in that very sector when the import market re-opened.
But hey going from nearly a million tons down to 60,000 in your primary business over 3 years must be good for finances eh?
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In the end it was the actions of the British government that caused the war in the first place to protect its sovereignty the US had no choice but to declare war.
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In the end it was both government playing silly buggers that caused the war, but that is normally the case isn't it.
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Don't make me refer you to my old thread in which I thoroughly refuted that argument.
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But Steve it doesn't refute that arguement and doesn't even go near the trade angle (which lets face it was the other war aim)
Control of the lakes is no good without control of the land and control of the land is no good without control of the lakes.
Since the main US aim of the whole fiasco from the very start was to sieze upper and lower canada through a land invasion, the fact that the land invasions got battered repeatedly means they got their butt kicked.
Overcoming the Provincial Marine was a good achievement, but not unexpected given the nature of that arm and it was still useless in real terms as the aim was not to control the lakes but to sieze the land.
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Starting to get a little paranoid
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You are not paranoid, it is true, but they are trying to keep it secret from you.