{"id":149,"date":"2012-10-23T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2012-12-05T18:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:36:28","slug":"the-american-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/explore-history\/the-american-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The American War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-banner\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing.jpg\" alt=\"A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814\" title=\"A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814\" width=\"625\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full page-image wp-image-635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"hover-content\">\n<div class=\"copy\">\n<strong><em>A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<cite>Print by John Bower, 1814<br \/>Courtesy of the New York Public Library, New York, New York <\/cite>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-title landing-title\">\n\t<strong><em>A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nPrint by John Bower, 1814<br \/>Courtesy of the New York Public Library, New York, New York\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The United States declared war against Great Britain in June 1812 in response to British encroachments on  American sovereignty. While American forces failed to conquer Canada, they captured several British frigates and won defensive battles against British invasions of the United States. Americans have come to view the war as a &#8220;nation-building&#8221; experience.  It won international respect for their power and sovereignty, inspired their national anthem and sanctified  their national flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814 Print by John Bower, 1814Courtesy of the New York Public Library, New York, New York A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/2495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}