Great American War (Our Revolution)

The Great American War, also known as the New World War, the Second American Revolution, and the Great War was a continental military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allied Powers and the Imperial Powers. The main combatants descended into a state of total war, pumping their entire scientific and industrial capabilities into the war effort from 1812 to 1815. It was fought chiefly in the North American Continent, though a number of battles decended into South America.

There were several immediate stated causes for the British declaration of war: first, a series of trade agreements introduced by the United States with France, a country with which Britain was at war (the British contested these restrictions as illegal under international law); second, American expansion into upper Canada impeding British endevors into Hudson Bay; third the desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be American insults (such as the Chesapeake affair).

The war was fought in four theatres: on the oceans, where the warships and privateers of both sides preyed on each other's merchant shipping; along the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the U.S., which were occupied by the British; in the Louisiana Purchase; and finally along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Latin America. During the course of the war, both the Americans Iberians, Russians, and British launched invasions of each other's territory, The most successful being the British invasion of the Eastern Seaboard, the American Invasion of California, the American Invasion of Brazil, and the Iberian Invasion of the Gulf of Mexico. At the end of the war, the British, Russians, and Iberians had been driven out of all American territory, and British Isles were being bombarded by American ships.

In the United States, battles such as Victoria, Louisiana, and the successful liberation of Baltimore (which inspired the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner) produced a sense of euphoria over a "second war of independence" against Britain. It ushered in an "Era of Good Feelings," in which the partisan animosity that had once verged on treason practically vanished. Europe was tarnished by the war, Britain Russia and the Iberian Empire had all lost a significant amount of territory by wars end and only France and Germany had gained any new territory.