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From: pector@ihuxw.UUCP (Scott W. Pector)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: re:War of 1812
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Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 18:23:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 18:23:32 1983
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I'd like to thank Dave Peak for supplying a more complete account of the
causes of the War of 1812.  I think that if you take his account and add
to it several items I referred to (British need for sailors for its fleet
against Napoleon, the "Chesapeake" incident, American strategy, impressment
of American sailors, etc.), it is clear (I hope) that the War of 1812 was
not just a "war of conquest" by the US.  Our motives with regard to the
American Indian were not always admirable, but certainly the US position
towards Britain had some justification.  It should be remembered that
wars typically can not be characterized in 3 word phrases.

						Scott Pector

(Dave and others:  sorry about using just a Jefferson source for many of
my statements; but, as I said in an earlier article, that is all I had and
I unfortunately did not have easy access or time to obtain another source.
Thus, I requested others for information.)