Brief War of 1812 presentation

1. War of 1812

2. Uncle Sam (Wilson)

3. The United States Declares War

4. First Battles
♦ Detroit was captured soon after declaring
war

5. Battle of the Thames
♦ Native Americans
fought on the side of
the British, but lose
near the shore of Lake
Huron.
♦ Tecumseh is killed and
native support for the
British fades

6. Lake Erie
1813 – Oliver Hazard
Perry defeats British on
Lake Erie

8. USS Constitution
August 1812 –
USS Constitution
scores one of the
greatest victories
of the war off the
coast of Nova
Scotia.
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9. USS United States
The USS
United
States
defeats
HMS
Macedonia
off the
coast of
Africa

10. USS President
USS President
went on the
offensive in
July of 1813
destroying 3
British ships
off the coast of
Ireland

12. Battle of York
♦ April 1813 – Americans take York (Toronto)

13. Washington, DC Burned
♦ August 1814,
British Burn
Washington,
DC in
revenge for
the loss at
York

14. Star-Spangled Banner
♦ Francis Scott
Key
♦ Held prisoner
on British ship
in Harbor of
Baltimore
♦ Sept 13 & 14,
1814

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O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last
gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through
the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting
in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag
was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet
wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the

17. Fort McHenry

18. Colonel
Jackson
General From
Tennessee.
Defeated Natives at
Horshoe Bend (revenge
for Fort Mims)
Moved south in 1814 to
strike at New Orleans

19. Battle of Lake Champlain
♦ American naval forces,
under the command of
Commodore
MacDonough, defeat a
British fleet on Lake
Champlain. The
American naval victory
forces the British to
withdraw, and thus ends
the British invasion.

20. Treaty of Ghent
♦ December 24, 1814
♦ Declared an Armistice