who realy won the battle of 1812 ?

Question

its said that the war was classed as a draw between united states and united kingdom.but did the british realy win it as they captured washington and burnt down the white house.also it was u.s that was begging to sighn a piece treaty and become britains allies.also at the same time the british empire was fighting the napolionic wars and ended up eniolating france.

Answer 1

The War of 1812 can probably best be called a draw. The reason for this is that, while the British did succeed in burning Washington DC, at the end of the war the situation between the two nations was almost exactly the same as it was before the war. It is probably safe to say that too much is made of the burning of Washington. The British took the city as the result of a very successful raid and that they never had any capability of holding the city. Major British moves against Baltimore and New Orleans were thrown back with heavy British losses and the American invasion of Canada was repulsed in a similar bloody mess. At sea the British Navy was never able to put a tight enough blockade on the North American Sea Coast to keep the American warships from slipping out and destroying British merchant shipping on the high seas but they were able to seal American merchant shipping in harbor. What this meant was that the American merchant trade was being crushed by not being able to sail and British merchant shipping was being crushed by American warships at sea. The American warships were heavily out numbered by the British but on an individual basis the British warships were no match for the American warships in either firepower or speed. In almost every engagement if the American didn't like the odds they could simply run and if they decided to fight, sometimes even though out numbered two to one, they chewed the British ships to pieces. With neither side able to make any serious inroads into the other on land and both nations merchant trade in ruins the Treaty of Ghent restored the nations to a pre war footing. They had fought one another to a mutual exhaustion.
Some will point out that the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was submitted and shouldn't be considered as a possible cause of the ending of the war. That is only half true. The treaty had been signed by the American delegation but the British delegation waited to hear the news of the New Orleans invasion force's victory or defeat before signing the treaty. The news that the invasion had been crushed left them with nothing to do but sign and accept the draw. In many ways the War of 1812 was the first true test of America as a viable nation on the world scene. Although America did not take Canada away from England it did stand toe to toe with the British, even after Napoleon was defeated and the whole might of the British army and fleet was free to focus on America, and not back down. After the Revolutionary War was finished Ben Franklin said, "The war of the revolution is won but the war for independence has yet to be fought". As usual, Franklin was correct.
As an aside I should mention that America did not become an ally of Britian until the First World and that America's relationship with Britian remained strained for years after the War of 1812. Although the treaty returned things to the situation as it existed before the war there was an important change. The impressment, or kidnapping, of American saliors on the high seas by the British navy, one of the prime causes of the war, came to an abrupt end and was never repeated.

Answer 2

There were no winners in the War of 1812. But the losers were the native peoples who were abandoned by the British. For the "Americans" (the United States) there was the illusion of victory because the news of the Treaty Of Ghent (which ended the war) arrived in the major cities at the same time as the news of the Battle of New Orleans. Thus it appeared that they were related and press proclaimed "victory and peace."

Answer 3

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and Britain and its colonies in British North America (see Upper Canada and Lower Canada) from 1812 to 1815 on land and sea.

The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring North America to status quo ante bellum.

The Treaty of Ghent established the status quo ante bellum; there were no territorial concessions made by either side. Relations between the United States and the United Kingdom remained peaceful, if not entirely tranquil, throughout the nineteenth century, and the two countries became close allies in the twentieth century.

Answer 4

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and Britain and its colonies in British North America (see Upper Canada and Lower Canada) from 1812 to 1815 on land and sea. The Americans had hoped for a quick win as Britain was at war with Napoleon. Despite several notable successes by US frigates and the menace of American privateers to British trade, the Royal Navy established a strict blockade of American trade causing economic hardship; on land the US invasion was repulsed and British forces counterattacked across the border burning Washington and occuppying Maine, but unsuccessfully attacking some well defended major cities. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring North America to status quo ante bellum.

Answer 5

Nobody won the War of 1812--except maybe James Madison, who won a second term. None of the overriding issues of the war were resolved by the Treaty of Ghent, such as the issue of impressment and freedom of the seas; in fact, they just grew more intense, as the British began interdicting ships involved in the illegal slave trade, which angered Southern leaders; this issue wasn't solved until 1861. In fact, the biggest "winner" of the war was probably Napoleon Bonaparte, because Britain was now distracted from its more important task of defeating him; the War of 1812 effectively bought Napoleon two more years. When British armies defeated him, they were able to turn more of their attention towards the fighting overseas, and we would probably have lost the thing if American diplomats led by John Quincy Adams had not come through for us and gotten us out of the mess "Little Jemmy" had gotten us into.

Answer 6

Technically it became right into a draw. even nonetheless, you will desire to declare the U. S. gained, because of the fact the motive of the British invasion became into to resubjegate the "colonies". some thing they did not do. even nonetheless they gained no territory, the U. S. maintained its sovereignty. The war additionally marked the decline of ecu impact interior the western hemisphere. Canada didnt exist as a rustic in 1812, so absolutely everyone asserting that Canada gained could be incorrect. The motive of the yankee incursion into what might become Canada became into to tension British impact out of North u.s. and grab key stragic settlements. That didnt ensue, the march outpaced the provision lines and the garrisons have been to nicely fortified to be routed. The individuals gained some key victories interior the battles around Boston and the Port of latest Orleans, making use of out or stoping the British advances chilly. even nonetheless, they lost different battles on the frontier and in DC, working example. a great style of the battles surely surpassed off after the top of hostilities, because of slow communications around the Atlantic.

Answer 7

Serious scholars agree the War of 1812 was a draw however for the United States that was a major victory--since the most powerful nation on earth did not defeat us. Following the War of 1812, America entered into a period of intense nationalism, jubilant over the "victory" we had in not losing to England.

Answer 8

The War of 1812 is generally viewed as a win/win draw, where both sides received recognition for there national integrity and territorial borders (US-Canada). They also agreed to cease further hostilities, thus, as you point out, diminishing French influence further.
The fact that the British manged to achieve this result swiftly with little loss of life and by maximizing the element of surprise, when they were also busy elsewhere does deserve recognition, not least because to some extent it still guides relations between the two countries today.

Answer 9

The white peoples of North America won the War of 1812. We figured out that although the US could take away Britian's empire on the continent and relieve Canadians of their independence relatively easily, but all the major commercial centres of the eastern seaboard were indefensible against the Royal Navy. It forced everyone into making peace and stop doing things to annoy each other (for the British/Canadians it meant stopping their program of arming First Nations who were fighting the Americans. For the Americans it meant ending the assumptions they ought to control the entire continent and rid it of British loyalists and French Catholics)

Who lost the war was the First Nations/Indians of the continent. With Britain withdrawing their support for the Ohio alliances who had spent most of their military potential fighting beside the British, the battle against white expansion was done in the US. At the same time, in the British possessions, their native allies were now expendable and the Canadian program of displacing and alienating them began.

Answer 10

England won the war of 1812.