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The War of 1812 doesn't loom as large in the United States consciousness as some other conflicts,

but it was an important one in that it basically settled the matter of the American Revolution

once and for all. Just a quarter century after the Revolutionary War, Americans brashly took on

the British Empire in a rematch, partly to resolve lingering grievances, but also with the

ambitious aim of seizing Canada, and instead came perilously close to a catastrophic

defeat that would have endangered the very future of the United States. But the Americans,

despite suffering the indignity of having invaders torch their capital city, managed to fight the

British to a stalemate.

The conflict ended with a peace treaty in which the U.S. didn't have to give up any territory

and retained the ability to expand westward, and the British had to accept the U.S. as a

truly separate nation and trading power.

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