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When we hear the phase, "the forgotten war", most of us think of the military conflict on the Korean Peninsula from June 1950 to July 1953. The most famous incident of this "forgotten war" occurred in 1951, when President Truman relieved General MacArthur of his command. MacArthur returned to America, where he was hailed as a hero and urged to run for president. He chose instead to retire to private life after a farewell address to a joint session of Congress in which he quoted a World War I British Army song: "Old soldiers never die; they simply fade away" ("1951", 1995, 1996). However, the US has an earlier, more important, and more completely forgotten war. This is the War of 1812, in which the young nation won its independence from Great Britain for the second time in less than fifty years. Few people today are aware that the United States had to fight the War of Independence twice, or that the US ever had a war with Canada. The War of 1812 placed the US against its former colonial ruler, Great Britain, and lasted two and a half years. The war reached its high point with the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815, and thereafter, Britain finally came to recognize the US as an independ
Finally, the US had little reason to declare war on France, since the declaration of war on Britain effectively removed the French motivation for seizing American ships, which was to encourage the US to enter the war against Britain. However, the US did not retaliate against the French in the first decade of the 1800s; instead, it focused its efforts against the British, who had only recently and reluctantly given up control of their American! colonies, and the Canadians, who shared an extensive land border with the young American nation. New York: Dutton, reprinted 1965 by Shoestring. Middletown, CT: Published for Mystic Seaport by Wesleyan Univ. Thus, a number of factors came together in shaping the American position during the conflict between Britain and Napoleonic France. The British regarded the War of I8I2 as an annoying appendix to the greater struggle against Napoleonic France, and the Canadians viewed it as a clear case of American aggression. The British did engage in the seizure and forced sale of merchant ships and their cargoes for allegedly violating the British blockade of Europe, but the Americans ignored the practice of the French Navy, which had declared a counter-blockade of the British Isles and had seized American ships. Actually, the incident arose from the American refusal to come to the aid of France in the war with Britain, as promised in the Franco-American treaty of 1778.
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