Although its bicentenary will soon be upon us, Taylor implies that Americans might not even bother to celebrate it. In his remarkable and deeply researched book the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor masterfully captures the strangeness of this war. This second war by the recently established US government against the former mother country of Great Britain was, said Virginia’s John Taylor, the philosopher of Jeffersonian Republicanism, a “metaphysical war, a war not for conquest, not for defense, not for sport,” but rather “a war for honour, like that of the Greeks against Troy.” The War of 1812 was the strangest war in American history. Watmough: Repulsion of the British at Fort Erie, 15th August 1814, 1840 Chicago History Museum/Bridgeman Art LibraryĮ.C.
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