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 beachhead in one day

  Mississippian William Faulkner once famously said that the past is never really dead; it is not  even past. Two men hover over America's past, making it not even past, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.  Without Lincoln, there would not have been an American Civil War; without Lee, Lincoln would have won the war in less than a year; without Lincoln, Lee would have won the war in two years. The 700,000 Civil War American dead are a direct result of the deadly Lincoln-Lee historical placement in the same time and place. General Lee is not dead; he is not even past. We know that from the frenzied fetish the current protesters have shown in trashing, vandalizing and tearing down his statues. The protesters validate their vendetta against stone replicas of Lee because they call him a traitor. He was; he thought so himself. When he arrived at Appomattox to surrender to the Union General Grant, he wore his best uniform because he thought he would be arrested for treason. He thought it f