War of 1812 PoDs

Brock surviving is the best POD.

Others include

A British victory at Sacketts harbour removing supplies and the General Pike from US ship building efforts there (easily accomplished by attacking on the first day).

A British victory on lake Erie (have Perry die and thus not be able to bring the other big ship into action or have the Britsih catch the Americans as they were lifting their ships over the sand bar).

Proctor can do better in his theatre (although it will be for nought if Put-In-Bay goes as OTL, still it would probably keep the Americans out of Canada from the west).

The shell which landed in the Fort Henry powder magazine explodes and destroys Fort Henry leading to a successful British assault on Baltimore.

Have a British victory on Lack Champlain (either by the wind being more advantageous, the British getting an extra week to prepare or Prevost pushing at Plattsburg) which leads to a British victory at Plattsburg.

Just about any of these result in Uti Possidetis with that having a varying level of territory being transferred based upon the scenario.
 
I gotta say, I really like the idea of Brock surviving and causing problems up north. If the British can convincing win the Northeast, then American interest is going to shift from taking Canada to maintaining its own territorial integrity.

I don't see the burning of Baltimore as a major thing. The city would be lost, and America would lose face, but the British already burned down Washington, DC, and I think it would really just be one more kick while we're down. I don't think the British would occupy Baltimore anymore than they did DC. They were doing it just to show they could.

An America that has lost the Old Northeast (except Ohio) and Louisiana, is going to be an America that is radically different from our own TL. This America, rather than be focused on working on internal problems and conflicts (slavery, states rights vs federal government) is going to be working on beating the British. I think that particularly in the South, the OTL opposition to internal improvements would disappear, as would opposition to tariffs. I see the width of policies within which politics move slim down considerably, so the United States, regardless of party, is moving in a National Republican/Whig-ish direction. Also, the power of the West is going to be curtailed, due to the lack of Western expansion (British in the way) so the Eastern Establishment will play a bigger role probably. John Quincy Adams, foreign policy guru that he was, may have 8 years in the White House, Jackson would need to find another war to star in, and Clay may be the only acceptable Westerner.

The United States needed to continue to expand to the West, and would probably want to fight the British sooner rather than later. Another war in the early 1820's? Perhaps more American involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence? With greater investment in the land versus the labor (due to expanded internal improvements and more access to free labor due to lack of Western migration) slavery is on its way out by the 1820's and the nail is put in the proverbial coffin in 1832, when Virginia begins the South's move toward government sponsored manumission?
 
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