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1812: War with America

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Listen to a short interview with Jon LatimerHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British standpoint, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an unwell-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was once a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood at the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward.

Americans would later find on this war many iconic moments in their national story–the bombardment of Fort McHenry (the inspiration for Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner”); the Battle of Lake Erie; the burning of Washington; the death of Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson’s victory at New Orleans–but their war of conquest was once in the long run a failure. Even the issues of neutrality and impressment that had triggered the war were not resolved in the peace treaty. For Britain, the war was once subsumed under a long conflict to stop Napoleon and to preserve the empire. The one lasting result of the war was once in Canada, where the British victory eliminated the specter of American conquest, and set Canadians at the road toward confederation.

Latimer describes events not merely through the eyes of generals, admirals, and politicians but through those of the soldiers, sailors, and extraordinary individuals who were in an instant affected. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs, he crafts an intimate narrative that marches the reader into the heat of battle.

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