The War of 1812 is part of a greater “Sixty Years War” (1754-1815) for the Great Lakes region and general Indian conflicts during the early American republic period. This includes Cherokees, Old Northwest, Seminole, and Creek wars. 1812 is fairly complex by itself, involving impressment, attempted invasions of both the US and Canada, and an unclear victory. This is a lecture covering these topics, themed around deciding sovereignty ------------------------------------------------------------ Errata 23:30 that's supposed to be Chesapeake Bay. The main river flowing into it is the Potomac (thx @emerj101) Bibliography Class readings for this week are Tecumseh’s call, 1810: https://bit.ly/3fUJGwy Congress debates war, 1811: https://bit.ly/2G6UcE1 Walter R. Borneman, 1812: The War That Forged a Nation (New York: HarperCollins, 2004). https://amzn.to/3Sc2zAz Colin G. Calloway, The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). https://amzn.to/3NQBSyM Peter Cozzens, A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2023). https://amzn.to/3S8O9RE William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the US Army and the Invasion That Opened the West (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017). https://amzn.to/36LjWTS Willard Sterne Randall, Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017). https://amzn.to/3RU04Bk Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003). https://amzn.to/2MVhWJ4 Mark Zuehlke, For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006). https://amzn.to/3HdGsDe ------------------------------------------------------------ US history lectures playlist:    • US history lectures   ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: null Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: https://cynical-historian-shop.fourthwall.com/ LET'S CONNECT Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cynicalhistorian.bsky.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cynicalhistorian ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: The Sixty Years' War (French: Guerre de Soixante Ans; 1754–1815) was a military struggle for control of the North American Great Lakes region, including Lake Champlain and Lake George,[1] encompassing a number of wars over multiple generations. The conflicts involved the British Empire, the French colonial empire, the United States, the Spanish Empire, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The term Sixty Years' War is used by academic historians to provide a framework for viewing this era as a whole, rather than as isolated events