Native American attacks on settlers in the “new frontier territories” that Americans believe are being encouraged by England.

The British act of stopping American ships at sea and forcing captured Americans to serve in the British Navy.

The war was not in America’s best interest. We were still a very young nation and militarily weak. British ships outnumbered American ships by about 20 to 1. Despite the disadvantage, some remarkable events occurred. -When the Chesapeake was captured, the dying order of Chesapeake captain James Lawrence was “Don’t Give up the Ship”. This will become the battle cry of the United States Navy.

- An important naval victory occurred in the summer of Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a small British fleet on Lake Erie, enabling the US to control the lake and protect a vital stretch of its northern border. “We have met the enemy and the enemy is ours”.

Washington D.C. is burned by the British. One of the few times in our history where our homeland is impacted in war by a foreign power. British soldiers hold a “mock session of Congress” and vote to burn down the capital building. This is the United States Capitol being rebuilt in 1814 after it was burned to the ground by the British.

Francis Scott Key writes the “Star-Spangled Banner” as America holds off the British at Fort McHenry at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: 'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

The Treaty of Ghent is signed in December of Due to the slow communication of the times, word of the treaty does not arrive in America until after the last battle is fought. The last battle will end in January of 1815.

The last battle is the Battle of New Orleans. America wins the last battle under the leadership of Andrew Jackson in January of This last battle will serve as an inspiration to a war effort that proved to be less than successful. Young America had weathered its first major military storm! ks#Battle%20of%20NewOrleans

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