![]() An implicit but powerful motivation for the Americans was the desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be British insults (such as the Chesapeake affair). seamen into the Royal Navy third, the British military support for American Indians who were offering armed resistance to the expansion of the American frontier to the Northwest fourth, a possible desire on the part of the United States to annex Canada. contested these restrictions as illegal under international law) second, the impressment (forced recruitment) of U.S. declaration of war: First, a series of trade restrictions introduced by Britain to impede American trade with France, a country with which Britain was at war (the U.S. ![]() There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S. ![]() declared war and historians have long debated the multiple factors behind that decision. The War of 1812, a war between the United States and the British Empire (particularly the United Kingdom and British North America), and Britain's Indian allies, lasted from 1812 to 1815. For Napoleon's invasion of Russia, see French invasion of Russia. This article is about the Anglo-American War of 1812 to 1815. ![]()
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