The Treaty of Ghent says otherwise - correct me if I'm wrong, but the United Kingdom didn't gain anything more than the United States, so, pray tell, how did the United States lose? By what metric, precisely?
The Treaty of Ghent says otherwise - correct me if I'm wrong, but the United Kingdom didn't gain anything more than the United States, so, pray tell, how did the United States lose? By what metric, precisely?
They were the aggressor and got nothing for it.
I remember someone saying that, and forgive me for forgetting the person who said it, "The only person to gain anything from the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"