One huge source of controversy between the United States and Britain leading up to the War of 1812 was the British policy of impressment: capturing alleged British subjects who had supposedly fled their military obligations by signing on to A...
America's decisive victory in the Battle of New Orleans, the last battle of the War of 1812, cast a gloss of success over what was really a military stalemate in the war as a whole. It contributed to the nationalist euphoria in America at end of ...