1- 1812 The Anglo American War ...war formally declared on the United Kingdom
While there are numerous contributing factors involved in the escalation of tensions between the newly minted democratic republic of the United States and Great Britiain in the lead up the 1812 Anglo American War:
-effective embargo of free trade between America and France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_in_Council_(1807)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_Act_of_1807http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Intercourse_Acthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon%27s_Bill_Number_2-forced conscription of American citizens by British forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_1756 ...as it related to "impressment" (conscription)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe-Pinkney_Treaty ...failure to solve impressment diplomatically
-British military support for the Native American resistence of US expansion/land-grabs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s_War ...and claims of a possible independent "Indian State"
-the various political/propaganda machinations utilised to manipulate public opinion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_lettershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Hawkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Belt_Affairhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake-Leopard_Affair ...changing public perception of impressment
...I don't want to go into every single detail here as I hope we can at least reach the basic level of discourse in which consensus history is stipulated by both sides.
I'm only hoping to defend my opinion that America didn't
really win this war.
In my opinion, (and I'm open to debate regarding this conclusion), this war is little more than a final settling of the American Revolution of 1775.
I'm somewhat of a long-cycle type thinker when it comes to history... I prefer a holistic view of historical events; not dates and numbers, legislation and politicans... but the trends and cycles which provide the underlying reality of these events... the true cause and effect seldom elucidated by history's blind chronology.
For example, I don't see the current Iraq War in the context of American military intervention prompted by enforcement of a UN mandate... not when Iraq breached 16 UN mandates; and a US supported Israel has to date breached more than 80 such mandates with impunity.
I'm a realist, I see the Iraq War as an oil war, pure and simple... an effort by the US to maintain dollar hegemony by seizing direct control of an oil asset previously entrusted to an American puppet regeime.
Similarly, I see the 1812-1815 Anglo American War in terms of warring power structures... the newly established Freemasonic constitutional American/French-Napoleonic system versus the aristocratic banking-controlled neo-feudal system of Great Britain... a New-World egalitarian enlightenment (America supported ideologically by post-aristocracy France) versus a Medieval feudal hierarchy administered by banking interests (the Bristish Empire).
Simply put, this war was an extension of the American Revolution... and the American Revolution was essentially fought to free the United States from the British Central Banking System.
So did America, with this win against British Central Banking in the international arena, and the domestic win against the Bristish Central Banking System constituting the American Revolution, really win out over the British Central Banking System?
Yes, America won the battle against the banking establishment (British Central Banking System) seizure of the American economy with the American Revolution.
Yes, America also won the battle against the banking establishment (British Central Banking System) for international hegemony with the Anglo American War.
But did the British Central Banking System (the real power behind the throne and parliament of Britain)
really win the war?
I maintain that it did.
The closest America came to actually winning this two stage revolution (American Revolution 1775 and Anglo American War 1812) was the election of Andrew Jackson in 1829, who ran on the explicit platform of eliminating America's own Central Bank (the Second National Bank) which constituted the last vestige of the British Central Banking System (political control by means of monetary/debt manipulation by a banking cabal) playing fifth column within the United States.
This he did in 1833, then quickly paid off the American National Debt, for the first (and only) time in American history.
However, sadly, America did NOT
really win this or any other war to free itself of the British Central Banking System.
The United States, its monetary system, its debt, its political system, its very citizens are currently wholly controlled/owned by America's THIRD national bank: the Federal Reserve.
Did America militarily defeat the British Banking Establishment and their Central Banking System with the Anglo American War of 1812... yes.
Did America
really win the war to be free of the British Central Banking System?
Well, the British model of centralised banking has just usurped pretty much every government in the world, while simultaneously bankrupting most of the developed worlds citizens and destroying the dollar, all in order to create an unassailable neo-feudal banking aristocracy (poposed IMF World Bank with Special Drwaing Rights global currency)
I reckon they
really won the war.
The Luke
