Re: War of 1812 - American Victory?

On Fri, 31 May 2002 08:35:00 +0000 "Donogh McCarthy"
<donoghmc@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>Imre Szabo:
>
>
>>>Let's get this straight.  The U.S. launches an
>>>aggresive war.  Is stopped
>>>cold.  Pushed back.	And then get's the status quo
>>>of before the war in the
>>>peace treaty and you call it a victory?
>
>John Atkinson:
>
>>Actually got well more than status quo ante bellum.
>>The Brits got the hell out of the Ohio River Valley.
>>Stopped impressment (wasn't in the treaty, but it
>>stopped).
>
>>All against the best and largest navy on the planet,
>>and one of the best armies going?
>
>Which was involved in the second world war at the time.
>And rather busy winning it. (and saving the "world" from French 
>domination 
>*grin*)
>As regards to the naval theatre, which I know more about than the land
<snip>
>
>theatre; the British sent their frigates to take on the US frigates
>which outclassed them in size - it's not too inaccurate to describe 
>the US 
>frigates as pocket battleships - able to outgun anything they couldn't 
>
>outrun and vice versa.
>
>Donogh
>
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First and last time that worked! <grin>

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