4 ms·
I'm American and it was taught as a stalemate. I think most history classes probably teach it that way, and that's the most accurate interpretation. Your averag
by opps90 7y ago
I'm American and it was taught as a stalemate. I think most history classes probably teach it that way, and that's the most accurate interpretation. Your average American likely remembers nothing about their history class so asking an average American if it was a US victory is meaningless.
Also it's not accurate to say the British got everything they wanted from the war. The Americans got the British to stop the impressment and harassment at sea, which is why the Americans declared the war to begin with. I think the British would have preferred not having the war at all in the first place since they had bigger issues with their own war with France.
- maire 7y agoI am also American and I also learned it was a stalemate. The most significant battle of the war was was fought two weeks after the war ended! American historians think that the British complied with the meager settlement of Ghent because of the battle of New Orleans. We did get a nifty song out of it.
- csdreamer7 7y agoDitto, it was taught as a stalemate. I don't remember if they taught the White House was burnt down in my history books. I remember reading a article much later about someone from the US Patent Office begging the British Army not to burn down the Patent Office due to all inventions and history recorded there. They didn't, and that is my strongest recollection.