War of 1812 Vienna, during which British diplomats had clashed with Russian and Prussian diplomats over the terms of the peace with France, and there were fears at the Britain might have go to war with Russia and Prussia. Now each side was tired of the war. Export trade was all but paralyzed and after Napoleon fell in 1814 France was no longer an enemy of Britain, so the Royal Navy no longer needed to stop American shipments to France, and it no longer needed to impress more seamen. It had ended the practices that so angered the Americans in 1812. The British
The Invasion of Canada "Flames Across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813–1814" (1981). "War of 1812, the", in "Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature" (1991), New York: HarperCollins. The Invasion of Canada The Invasion of Canada: 1812–1813 is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton. The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it. Berton wrote that this history is neither military nor political. "This is, rather, a "social" history of the war, the first to be written by a Canadian." Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of common