{"id":151,"date":"2012-10-23T19:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2012-12-05T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:35:15","slug":"the-british-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/explore-history\/the-british-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The British War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-banner\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3B-GR01-Heath-Boarding-and-Taking-the-American-ship-Chesapeake3.jpg\" alt=\"Boarding and Taking the American Ship Chesapeake, by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded by Capt. Broke, June 1813\" title=\"Boarding and Taking the American Ship Chesapeake, by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded by Capt. Broke, June 1813 \" width=\"625\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full page-image wp-image-607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3B-GR01-Heath-Boarding-and-Taking-the-American-ship-Chesapeake3.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3B-GR01-Heath-Boarding-and-Taking-the-American-ship-Chesapeake3-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"hover-content\">\n<div class=\"copy\">\n<strong><em>Boarding and Taking the American Ship<\/em> Chesapeake, <em>by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded by Capt. Broke, June 1813<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<cite>Painted by Charles Heath<br \/> Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island<\/cite>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-title landing-title\">\n\t<strong><em>Boarding and Taking the American Ship<\/em> Chesapeake, <em>by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded by Capt. Broke, June 1813<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<cite>Painted by Charles Heath<br \/> Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the British look back at the early nineteenth century, they remember the Napoleonic Wars, not the War of 1812. To support the war with France, the British forced sailors from American ships to join the Royal Navy and attempted to control American trade with French-occupied Europe. When the United States responded by declaring war, Britain defended Canada and blockaded American ports, but never lost sight of its primary goal: defeating Napoleon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boarding and Taking the American Ship Chesapeake, by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded by Capt. Broke, June 1813 Painted by Charles Heath Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island Boarding and Taking the American Ship Chesapeake, by the Officers &amp; Crew of H.M. Ship Shannon, Commanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/2500"}],"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=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}