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Message:: [QUOTE="tommyc03, post: 4124306, member: 17665"]You are correct in that it ended up as a stalemate for the most part and mostly involved the British blockading the U. S. shipping lanes. Much of it was fought on land though and involved indigenous American Indians who were in league with the British. America did receive some reparations from the British for the loss of U. S. slaves who were also employed by the British and promised freedom and land of their own. Approx. $1,240,000.00 in reparations was paid to slave owners. Spain also got involved to some degree in trying to take California. A little further research shows that even though Pres. Jackson sued for reparations he got little to none and infuriated Americans with foreign tariffs until reparations were paid that led to shortages of basic goods. The entire history of the war has been written differently by different authors so it tends to be very confusing. While the U.S. considered the war a major event, in Great Britain it was considered a nuisance war that it not much taught about. The U.S. ended up losing Lower Canada which it wanted for shipping purposes and the British, at the end of the war, ended up pursuing India, Bermuda and other small islands to increase their expansionism. Both sides ended up losing about the same amount of money in waging the war.[/QUOTE]