The War of 1812, t he cause of the War was simple, the British Navy was blockading Napoleonic France and needed sailors to man their Fleet, English speaking sailors preferably, so the Brits would stop American merchant ships and summarily impressed(drafted) American civilian sailors into the Navy. The War involved American invasions of Canada, naval engagements on Lake Champlain, naval engagements on the high seas(in which the American Navy did VERY WELL), and fierce frontier engagements between British armed Native Americans and American frontiersmen. It ended on an inconclusive note. The American Uniforms were snazzy, and the Star Spangled Banner was written. The United States has produced nine great Generals: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and Dwight Eisenhower( Readers, name another General in history that could have landed an army in the face of withering Nazi fire and gained a beach...

Everything that Americans like about themselves, their courage, their resilience, their loyalty, their love for their wives, their hatred of banks comes from Andrew Jackson's life experience. Everything that Law School Graduates, Europeans and civilized people across the world hate about Americans: the racism, the violence, the defiance of the rule of law, the greed comes from Andrew Jackson. Jackson may not have been the greatest American, but he is THE American. " Jackson had two brothers, Hugh (born 1763) and Robert (born 1764). Jackson's father died at the age of 29, three weeks before Jackson was born.  During the   Revolutionary  War , Jackson, at age thirteen, joined a local regiment as a courier. His eldest brother, Hugh, died from heat exhaustion during the Battle of Stono Ferry , on June 20, 1779. Jackson and his brother Robert were captured by the British  and held as  prisoners of war ;they ne...