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Causes
Neutrality (Britain and France at war).
British seizure of American merchant vessels.
British practice of "impressment" (stopping US merchant ships and forcing American sailors into service for the British navy).
Conflict over frontier land.
British agitation of Native Americans against American settlement on the frontier.
War Hawks in Congress advocated pushing the British out of the frontier and expelling them from Canada.
Battle of Lake Erie
1813
Led by Captain Oliver Perry and claimed Lake Erie for the US.
Battle of Baltimore
1814
British forces advanced through Washington DC and burned the Capital.
Britain failed to capture Fort McHenry (Star Spangled Banner).
Battle of New Orleans
1815
Final major battle of the war, fought after the war was already ended by the Treaty of Ghent.
Andrew Jackson became an American Hero.
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