{"id":12284,"date":"2011-11-28T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12284"},"modified":"2011-11-28T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:09:18","slug":"who-won-the-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/who-won-the-war-of-1812\/","title":{"rendered":"Who won the War of 1812?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an American historian quoted in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/11\/27\/canada-won-the-war-of-1812-u-s-historian-admits\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a><\/em>, Canada won:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North American military conflicts states bluntly that Canada won the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins University professor Eliot Cohen, a senior adviser to former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, writes in his just-published book <em>Conquered Into Liberty<\/em> that, \u201cultimately, Canada and Canadians won the War of 1812.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Cohen acknowledges that, \u201cAmericans at the time, and, by and large, since, did not see matters that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book also echoes a key message trumpeted by the federal Conservative government in recent weeks as it unveiled ambitious plans to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 over the next three years: that the successful fight by British, English- and French-Canadian and First Nations allies to resist would-be American conquerors &mdash; at battles such as Queenston Heights in Upper Canada and Chateauguay in Lower Canada &mdash; set the stage for the creation of a unified and independent Canada a half-century later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the conquest of (Canada) had not been an American objective when the war began, it surely had become such shortly after it opened,\u201d Cohen argues in the book. \u201cNot only did the colony remain intact: It had acquired heroes, British and French, and a narrative of plucky defense against foreign invasion, that helped carry it to nationhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an American historian quoted in the National Post, Canada won: In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North American military conflicts states bluntly that Canada won the War of 1812. Johns Hopkins University professor Eliot Cohen, a senior adviser to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,13],"tags":[438,87,113,566],"class_list":["post-12284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-firstnations","tag-ontario","tag-quebec","tag-warof1812"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3c8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12286,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions\/12286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}