British lake. It was important for a lot of reasons. One pennsylvania, maryland, delaware and virginia were the bread basket of the United States. You bottle up the Chesapeake Bay and a lot of the goods, the wheat that was exported that does not get to sea. In addition, uch the important sea ports and cities of indianapolis and baltimore and the new capitols, washington dc. Alexander and virginia. The british with blocking the bay hope that we would pull our troops out of canada and using them closer to home and recognizing the war being unpopul unpopul unpopular amongst our people. The economy was not doing so well, that may help end this war of 1812. For the british, the war of 1812 is a distraction. All this is but a side show. They want to bring the war of 1812 to a conclusion as quickly as they can. The world of 1812 here on the Chesapeake Bay sees the world navy against a number of small town and americans living over the bay. However, even a small resistance that town would be b