HIS311Y1 Lecture 8: Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Document Summary
Us is still part of a european system usually when we look at this period we talk about them as if they are between canada and the. Alternate way of looking at the war of 1812. Subset of the napoleonic and revolutionary wars. Outcome of the war of 1812 depends more on what happens in europe than america. Treaty of 1783 and jay"s treaty of 1794 regulate relations between gb and us. In that period the british have to administer and colonize the british provinces to the north. Is initially with the loyalists military survivors of the american revolution. British encourages the us to come into the north particularly upper and lower canada. National identity is quite uncertain and unformed. Many americans had been born under king george. They are as much ex-british as they are american. Hope is that the americans will come populate canada. It works, the british offered free land.
