If you ask about "1812" in the UK, you'll get a lot of blank stares and a few people saying "The Overture?". That once piece by Tchaikovsky is almost certainly

If you ask about "1812" in the UK, you'll get a lot of blank stares and a few people saying "The Overture?". That once piece by Tchaikovsky is almost certainly better known in the UK than not only the war but the sum total of all American events between the US war of independence and the US Civil War. I only know that the war of 1812 happened at all because I'm the right kind of nerd, and even then I know very little about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_Overture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_Overture