Where I went to school (in the US, but there weren’t unified standards at the time), US and European history were taught separately, in alternate years. So we

Where I went to school (in the US, but there weren’t unified standards at the time), US and European history were taught separately, in alternate years. So we got both the war of 1812, and the Napoleonic Wars, but there was little to connect them to each other except for the dates.