Well, kinda-sorta: it's one of those affairs where you could make a case for each side having gained at least some of their initial aims: Canada got to stay free and independent (burning Washington sort of made up for the burning of York (aka Toronto)), the Americans got to beat the British at New Orleans (admittedly after the final whistle), so that makes the land war sort of a score draw.
The war at sea was a little different, though: the US Navy was disturbingly good and the whole impressment/allegiance argument wasn't so much solved as just went away into a mist of irrelevance.
I don't think anyone can claim to have won overall, but then again, no-one can claim anyone else lost, either.
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Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....
Date: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003 03:20 am (UTC)The war at sea was a little different, though: the US Navy was disturbingly good and the whole impressment/allegiance argument wasn't so much solved as just went away into a mist of irrelevance.
I don't think anyone can claim to have won overall, but then again, no-one can claim anyone else lost, either.