David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

But ignorance of the War of 1812 lightens ... the first U.S. Army to march into Canada was so badly led that it promptly retreated and then surrendered, ceding Michigan to the British.

Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British ... they were shot into oblivion by Jackson’s ragtag ...

And Canada seemed an easy target. It had a population of only 500,000, while the U.S. was home to 7.5 million, and Britain ...

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