War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the United States Congress on 17 February 1815.
Quotes
[edit]- The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrours, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
- General John Coffee, on American Indian fighters at the Battle of Tallushatchee, 3 November 1813, in an official report to Andrew Jackson (November 1813), as quoted in James Porton, Life of Andrew Jackson (1860)
- They wanted this iron fist to command them.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (8 November 1840), recalling the fate of some of his best troops from Bordeaux, sent to the Canadian frontier during the War of 1812; in Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831–1851 (1888), p. 252
In fiction
[edit]- In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon an' we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British at the town of New Orleans.
