War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another episode of Key Battles of the War of 1812.

This is your host, James Early, as always.

In our last episode, we talked about what was going on on the high seas as well as on

the lakes in 1813. We saw some American victories and some American losses, but we did see that

the British are starting to crack down a little bit, bringing more ships to the fight,

extending the blockade. We also talked about economics and some

political situations. Now, in this episode, we're going to go back on land and talk about

another part of the war that we haven't talked about so far. And that's simply because it hasn't

really existed. We are going to follow the American forces as they go into the

South and also some British forces as well. As always, I have my buddy Steve Guerra with me.

Steve, how are you this morning? I'm great. Thanks. All right. Are you ready to go South?

I am ready. Bags packed. Let's do this. All right. I get your mosquito netting and your

bug spray. Yeah, you know, air conditioning. Lots of water bottles. So what are we going to, how are we going to

start out? What do you think? We've been talking so much about the North and the Native American

issues in the North with the settlers.

And it seemed like things were fairly common in the South, but then there's a rise of some,

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