✦ History

War of 1812

June 18, 1812 – February 17, 1815 · Great Lakes

Result Inconclusive

War between the United States and the United Kingdom over trade restrictions, impressment of sailors and British support for Native American resistance. It ended in a draw, but broke Native American resistance in the Northwest.

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United States

United Kingdom

Other

United States
Chickasaw Nation
Choctaw Nation
Cherokee
United Kingdom
Muscogee Confederacy
Tecumseh's Confederacy
Red Sticks
Winfield Scott belligerent leader William Henry Harrison belligerent leader Andrew Jackson General, Won the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 James Madison President of the United States, Asked Congress to declare war William Hull military commander Jacob Brown military commander John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772) military commander Stephen Decatur military commander
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool belligerent leader Tecumseh Shawnee leader, Fought with the British; killed at the Battle of the Thames Edward Pakenham belligerent leader Isaac Brock military commander Alexander Cochrane military commander George Prevost military commander Phineas Riall military commander Robert Ross military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
2,200
Wounded
4,505
Captured
20,000

United States Strength 286,730 · Killed 2,260 · Wounded 4,505

Units

Army of the Centre (1812) Army of the North (Dearborn and Wilkinson) Harrison's Army of the Northwest Hull's Army of the Northwest Jackson's army (1813–1815) United States Army Army of the Northwest (United States) United States Army Corps of Engineers Veteran Corps of Artillery Left Division (Jacob Brown) Republican Blues 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) 5th Infantry Regiment (United States) 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) Chatham Artillery Macdonough's Lake Champlain squadron Perry's Lake Erie squadron USS Chesapeake USS Constitution
British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Centre Division (Upper Canada) Pakenham's army (New Orleans) Prevost's army (1814) Right Division (Upper Canada) Ross's Chesapeake army Royal Marines 19th Light Dragoons 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot 76th Regiment of Foot Royal Navy Royal Navy North America Station Barclay's Lake Erie squadron Downie's Lake Champlain squadron HMS Guerriere HMS Java HMS Shannon
111th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Infantry Regiment (United States) 3rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 6th Infantry Regiment (United States) 9th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Battles 28

Key events

1812 5 events
1813 13 events
1814 9 events
1815 1 event

Before and after

Led to
Rush–Bagot Treaty April 28, 1817

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