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An 8 page paper which examines the making of the Lake Erie and Ontario Fleets, which were the origins of the war’s Great Lakes’ fleets. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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was it fought? It was the first war waged by the newly formed American republic, and in the opinion of many, "the most senseless... ill-conceived and often ill-conducted" (Gilbert,
1995, p. 24). The answer to why the war was fought appears to be two-fold - a desire to acquire the fertile soil of Upper Canadas western Ontario peninsula,
and also an equal desire for vengeance against the Indians who occupied that territory (Gilbert, 1995). Ultimately, however, the seeds of war were sown not because of any ideological
or territorial disputes, but by a serious breakdown in communications between Great Britain and the United States. Tensions between the two nations had been heating up, but Great Britain
had agreed to acquiesce to the U.S. demand to rectify the situation. Unfortunately, however, the U.S. never received this correspondence until war had been declared on June 18, 1812
(Parker, 1970). The American military was ill-equipped to be fighting any war at that time, especially against as formidable an adversary as the Royal Navy. According to military statistics,
as of June 30, 1812, the total number of American military personnel was a paltry 12,631, with only 1,294 enlisted men and 27 officers in the Marine Corps (Parker, 1970,
p. 10). Furthermore, the U.S. Navy, such as it was, only had three first-class warships - the President, the United States and the Constitution (Parker, 1970). While the
first year of the war was wisely confined to land and army units along the Canadian prairie, the American ground troops were incurring huge losses (Parker, 1970). President James
Madison eventually realized that in order to control the movement of the British forces, he would have to secure control over the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario (Parker, 1970).
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