US Shrugs, Canada Goes All-Out for Bicentennial-- Part 2

Britain's heart was not into the war against the United States.  They were preoccupied in Europe fighting Napoleon, who was a much more serious threat.  In effect, we had to fight their "B" teams in terms of soldiers, generals, ships and sailors.  Even the huge British-Canadian hero Isaac Brock was doing everything he could to get transferred back to fight Napoleon, considering Canada a backwater.

As the old saying goes,  "Canadians are sure they won the War of 1812, Americans are pretty sure they did, and the British never heard of it."

Historians say it was an important war as:

1.  It proved the U.S. was here to stay.

2.  It shaped the American future; economically, diplomatically and militarily.

3.  It led to the rise of Andrew Jackson

4.  The Indians were the biggest losers.  It reinforced American determination to entirely remove them east of the Mississippi and as enemies.  They also lost their British support.

5.  Canada stayed British.

The title of this entry refers to the amounts of money the U.S. and Canadian governments were spending on the bicentennial.

Brock-Perry