Some DOOMER way back in December 1813 named Richard Rush wrote to his old friend John Adams about the mood in Washington D.C.: "The prospect looks black. It is awful. Is not another torrent rolling too fiercely upon us to be turned back?" Adams replied, “The times are too serious to write.” AND YET—
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Reading about it now. Absolutely brutal treatment of prisoners by some tribes.
Looks like the Brits lost in large part for the same reason they lost in 1783. A long supply train from Britian to the Americas. They couldn't live off the land. Seems odd they couldn't feed guys in Canada, even.
Brits were shocked by the effectiveness of the large US frigates. Nelson saw one of them in Gibralter in 1805 and said they were going to be trouble.