{"id":8646,"date":"2015-05-30T19:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2015-05-30T19:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T00:53:40","slug":"1812-the-inconsequential-war-that-changed-america-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8646","title":{"rendered":"1812: The Inconsequential War That Changed America Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"storytitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2015\/05\/29\/1812-the-inconsequential-war-that-changed-america-forever\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">1812: The Inconsequential War That Changed America Forever<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>WHY SHOULD I CARE?<\/p>\n<p>Most adult Americans today are unaware of what caused the War of 1812, who started it, what the outcome was, or even who the belligerents were. If I recall correctly, my grade school \/ high school History Class covered The War Of 1812 \u2014 aka America\u2019s Second War Of Independence, or America\u2019s Forgotten War \u2014 for a total of\u00a0<em>maybe\u00a0<\/em>one week. And what a worthless week it was. Like most history teachers I\u2019ve ever had, they turned an exciting story into a dry bundle of boring crap \u2026 focusing on memorizing dates and random events\u00a0<em><u>without<\/u><\/em>\u00a0getting to the real story behind the story; i.e.\u00a0<em>why\u00a0<\/em>did it happen,\u00a0<em>how<\/em>\u00a0does the war affect us today, and\u00a0<em>what\u00a0<\/em>can we learn from it?\u00a0 This is a crying shame because the war had a tremendous impact on American political development, territorial expansion, and national identity.<\/p>\n<p>A 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century French historian said,\u00a0<em>\u201cHistory studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The word \u2018history\u2019 comes from the Greek, and literally means \u201c<em>knowledge acquired by investigation<\/em>\u201d. So, let us investigate the War Of 1812, and the spirit of humanity which caused it \u2026 and changed America forever.<\/p>\n<p>OVERALL SUMMARY<\/p>\n<p>There were two major reasons given for the war.<\/p>\n<p>First, Britain was at war with France since 1793. For twenty years the British claimed they had the right \u2013 as a legitimate and necessary wartime measure \u2014 to intercept American ships on the high seas, seize and keep their cargoes, and search the crews for British navy deserters. The British between 1807 and 1812 seized some 400 American ships and cargoes worth millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1812: The Inconsequential War That Changed America Forever WHY SHOULD I CARE? Most adult Americans today are unaware of what caused the War of 1812, who started it, what the outcome was, or even who the belligerents were. If I recall correctly, my grade school \/ high school History Class covered The War Of 1812 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1949,93,333,4413,1073,827,834,5873,5874],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-america","tag-britain","tag-france","tag-great-britain","tag-states","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war-of-1812","tag-war-of-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}