*shrugs* the war wasn't much of a war... the blockade by the RN stifled the US so fast that the Brits scarcely had time to do a real invasion. They occupied Oregon painlessly; the US had no presence there. Sure, the Brits won the battles at Niagra and the Great Lakes, but unbelievably, the Brits tried to get some revenge for 1812, attacked New Orleans, and got whomped again! Hell, Lee was the only American military leader to come out of the war with a good reputation. And in the end, what did Britain gain... Oregon. Sure, the place has some nice ports, but the US has plenty of those in California. Oregon has a lot of trees, but the Brits never found oil or gold there (and stopped looking once they grabbed Alaska and found it there). Oregon has some decent farmland, but the US has better in the midwest. It would have been nice for the US to have another state in the northwest, but we've done fine without Oregon. The seven states we formed out of the spoils from the Mexican War were way more important than Oregon would ever have been... gold in CA, silver in NV, oil in Sonora.... hey, if you want a really significant POD, postulate no Oregon war, but a loss to Mexico.. that would have been really dire...