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