I have some questions about the war of 1812?

Question

1.) What created the sharp divisions amoung the country when going into the war?
2.) What kind of atitude did we have going in to the invasion of canada?
3.) what mistakes did we make in the war?

Answer 1

The sharp divisions in the US going in to the war were regional in expression but based in economic interest and ideology. Areas which relied on commerce did not want to see that commerce disrupted by war with the country having the strongest navy in the world, i.e. Britain. Areas which favored territorial expansion or felt threatened by Indian attack (believing the British were stirred up hostility to the US among Indians in the old Northwest) were for war. Conservatives who reacted with horror to the French Revolution favored the British in their war with France and did not wish the US to go to war with Britain. Those of more radical political ideology were pro-French and therefore anti-British. In general New England did not want war while much of the South and West did.
Those in favor of the war expected that the invasion of Canada would be a mere matter of marching in and taking over. They also believed that the American army would be greeted as liberators by the Canadian colonists. Those opposing the war felt that an invasion of Canada was both unwise and morally unjust.
The greatest strategic mistake was not concentrating on cutting the St. Lawrence river somewhere between Kingston and Montreal. This would have strangled Upper Canada. Instead the US invaded the hard way across from Michigan into southwestern Upper Canada (the modern Ontario) and across the Niagara River.

Answer 2

The mistakes that Napoleon made was invading russia in winter. besides, he tought that he would find supplies in moscow, but the russians burned the city and napoleon found himself without supplies for his army in a harsh russian winter, at great distance from everything

Answer 3

http://www.warof1812.ca/intro.html

should give you good info