{"id":1775,"date":"2023-02-07T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/fire-blood-the-anglo-american-war-of-1812\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:18:55","slug":"fire-blood-the-anglo-american-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/fire-blood-the-anglo-american-war-of-1812\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire & Blood – The Anglo-American War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2012 at the start of the 200th Anniversary of the Anglo-American War of 1812, I set out on my first major history project to record the sites, battles, and people that made up the War of 1812. Within the wider world, the war was little more than a historical footnote to the greater Napoleonic conflict it would have major repercussions here on the American continent.<\/p>\n

\"Project:1812<\/a>
The War of 1812 Memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1812:Revisited<\/strong>
\nTo celebrate the 210th Anniversary of the end of the Anglo-American War of 1812, I went back to my original posts, notes, and of course the final book to recompile the entire project from end to end and present the entirety of the conflict in a twelve post series through all of 2025. While this isn’t as in-depth as my original project it is done in order and gives a greater big picture of the major events that shaped the war from start to the effects it had on the rest of the 19th Century and even into the 20th. As a sidenote, the titles of the posts are inspired by Pierre Burton, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Babylon 5<\/em><\/p>\n

I – In the Beginning<\/a>
\nII – First Strike<\/a>
\nIII – Check & Mate<\/a>
\nIV – Flames Across the Border<\/a>
\nV – And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place<\/a>
\nVI – Severed Dreams<\/a>
\nVII – Vendetta<\/a>
\nVIII – By Any Means Necessary<\/a>
\nIX – The Empire Strikes Back<\/a>
\nX – Let That Be your Last Battlefield<\/a>
\nXI – Shadow Dancing<\/a>
\nXII – Status Quo, Antebellum<\/a><\/p>\n

Places<\/strong>
\nBurlington Heights<\/a>
\nFort York<\/a>
\nFort Erie<\/a>
\nFort Wellington<\/a>
\nFort George<\/a>
\nQueenston Heights<\/a>
\nFort Malden<\/a>
\nFort Niagara<\/a>
\nUSS Consitution<\/a>
\nFort Mississauga<\/a>
\nBakus Mills<\/a>
\nPort Dover<\/a>
\nFort Meigs<\/a>
\nFort Mackinac<\/a>
\nFort St. Joseph<\/a>
\nFort Ontario<\/a>
\nFort Detroit<\/a>
\nFort Crawford<\/a>
\nThe Forts of Maine<\/a>
\nFort George (Halifax Citidal)<\/a>
\nFort McHenry<\/a><\/p>\n

Battles and Events<\/strong>
\nThe Acaster Assizes<\/a>
\nThe Battle of York<\/a>
\nBattle of Stoney Creek<\/a>
\nAction at Butler’s Farm<\/a>
\nBattle of Chippawa<\/a>
\nBattle of Lundy’s Lane<\/a>
\nSeige of Fort Meigs (1813)<\/a>
\nBattle of Queenston Heights<\/a>
\nCapture of Fort Niagara<\/a>
\nBurning of Niagara<\/a>
\nSeige of Fort Erie<\/a>
\nBattle of Fort George<\/a>
\nRaid on Charlotte<\/a>
\nBattle of Crystler’s Farm<\/a>
\nBattle of Fort Dearborn<\/a>
\nBattle of Fort Stephenson<\/a>
\nBattle of Frenchtown<\/a>
\nBattle of Malcolm’s Mill<\/a>
\nSeige of Fort Detroit<\/a>
\nThe Invasion of Upper Canada (1812)<\/a>
\nBattle of Longwoods<\/a>
\nBattle of Tippecanoe<\/a>
\nBattle of the Thames<\/a>
\nBattle of Sacketts Harbor (1813)<\/a>
\nBattle of Beaverdams<\/a>
\nBattle of Plattsburg<\/a>
\nBattle of Chateauguay<\/a>
\nBattle of Lake Erie<\/a>
\nBattle of Lake Huron<\/a>
\nBattle of Mackinac Island<\/a>
\nCapture of Mackinac Island<\/a>
\nBattle of Mississinawa<\/a>
\nActions on Lake Ontario<\/a>
\nRaid on Ogdensburg<\/a>
\nRaid on Oswego<\/a>
\nBattle of Cooks Mill<\/a>
\nSeige of Prairie du Chien<\/a>
\nRaid on Gananoque<\/a>
\nTreaty of Ghent<\/a>
\nBattle of New Orleans<\/a>
\nThe Sherbooke Expedition<\/a>
\nThe Capture of the Chesapeake<\/a>
\nThe March of the 104th<\/a>
\nBattle of Bladensburg<\/a>
\nThe Burning of Washington DC<\/a>
\nThe Battle of Baltimore<\/a><\/p>\n

People<\/strong>
\nGeneral Sir Isaac Brock<\/a>
\nLaura Secord<\/a>
\nJames FitzGibbon<\/a>
\nOliver Hazard Perry<\/a>
\nTecumseh<\/a>
\nWilliam Henry Harrison<\/a>
\nHenry Proctor<\/a>
\nMiller Worsley<\/a>
\nCharles de Salaberry<\/a>
\nWilliam Hull<\/a>
\nSir Robert McDouall<\/a>
\nBenjamin Forsyth<\/a>
\nGeorge Prevost<\/a>
\nJoseph Willcocks<\/a>
\nGordon Drummond<\/a>
\nSir John C. Sherbrooke<\/a>
\nJames Lawrence<\/a>
\nSir Philip B.V. Broke<\/a>
\nWilliam McKay<\/a>
\nRobert Dickson<\/a>
\nGeorge Armistead<\/a>
\nRobert Ross<\/a>
\nWilliam H. Winder<\/a>
\nSir Robert Barrie<\/a>
\nCharles Morris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2012 at the start of the 200th Anniversary of the Anglo-American War of 1812, I set out on my first major history project to record the sites, battles, and people that made up the War of 1812. Within the wider world, the war was little more than a historical footnote to the greater Napoleonic conflict it would have major repercussions here on the American continent. 1812:Revisited To celebrate the 210th Anniversary of the end of the Anglo-American War of 1812, I went back to my original posts, notes, and of course the final book to recompile the entire project from end to end andRead More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9098,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1775\/revisions\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}