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Old November 4, 2019, 11:09 AM   #59
davidsog
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These happened independent of any US actions as the War with France ended.
British Impressment of US sailors ended with the War of 1812. It was not an official policy until 1835 but there are no more incidents of impressment after the war.

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It was back to genocide in America.
Propaganda. The Creeks were not innocents brought to some holocaust genocide by the United States. They were willing participants in a war and every bit deserving of the title Warrior Tribesman.

They lost because they were technically outmatched but that does not take away from their bravery nor does it remove the fact they were combatants in a war. The idea they were some innocent natures children is pure poppycock pushed by the ignorant as a sound bite.

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The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the “Red Stick War,” began as a civil war within the Creek nation. A faction of younger men from the Upper Creek villages, known as “Red Sticks,” sought aggressively to resist U.S. invasion into their territories.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/bo...e-war-of-1812/

The Creek War was started by the Creeks when the Red Sticks massacred over 300 families at Ft Mims. Most of the casualties were women and children.

The Creek Nation was in the midst of its own civil war. The Red Sticks brought the United States into that conflict and as a result, the Creeks lost. As part of ending that war, they ceded 23 million acres of land.

Moral of the Story, do not start a war and lose.

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Their actual goal was to seize Canada.
No. The acquisition of Canada was not a goal or reason why the United States entered the war. That was strategy once the war was entered.

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Why invade Canada?
It was the closest British colony, but Madison also had political reasons for targeting America's northern neighbor. His Democratic-Republican Party drew much of its support from the rural South and what was then the American West — the territory stretching up the Mississippi basin to the Great Lakes. Frontier inhabitants were eager to strike at the British in Canada because they suspected them of arming Native American tribes that were standing in the way of America's westward expansion.
https://theweek.com/articles/473482/...-brief-history

And they most certainly were arming the Native Americans and encouraging armed conflict along the frontier. That was very much a Part of England's strategy with the eventual goal of retaking the Rebellious colonies.

Once more, Freedom Loving Americans thought their Canadian cousins did not relish living in English bondage as a colony. They actually expected the Canadians to fight on our side. It turned out the Canadians did love it and were loyal to the British Crown.

Goes to highlight how new the concepts of Governance and individual freedom were in the world put into action by the United States and philosophers of the French Revolution.
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