Best guesses. But of course the numbers that the indians had operated from a far smaller demographic base so, the impact of heavy losses is going to be much greater proportionately with indians. So the indians lost a great many warriors particularly but also women and children in starvation as a result of the war. And that made it all easier for americans after 1815 to remove some of these people, ship them further west so they ultimately end up on reservations in indian territory. This did facilitate american expansion across the continent. Then on top of that i suppose you can throw in property dam e damages a result of british raids, captures of sea merchants, men, things like that. Its probably impossible to put a precise figure on that. The british captured a few american merchants in the period, but actually americans also captured a good many british merchants. I think its impossible to put a figure on that. But if we say that human damage is necessary, the greatest any war in
Populated area and people have been taught what took place there and what took place was very important, but it was a diversion, the real battle was up here. You see if the british can take plattsburgh, theres no troops between here and washington, d. C. , theres no american the calvary is not coming and with plattsburgh gone, they can go on to lake george and the hudson and split the United States half. In the meantime, the treaty is on, and this is a bargaining chip, if you can take plattsburgh and redraw the northern border of the United States. What they had in mind, they didnt plan to take the United States again, this is not another revolution, what they planned was, they wanted a new northern border for the United States, not the 45th parallel, but the 43rd. They wanted the northern border of massachusetts to be the bored of the northern United States. And if you take that line and you run it across the country, you end up in buffalo. That means that the United States would have
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