Enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. On this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. This really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. The war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. In fact, it wouldnt be fought by 200,000 men all told. As 1813 began James Madison knew that napoleon had lost. His army was in full retreat. Indeed, it was in complete collapse. He had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. They had lost. Now what was going to happen . This also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. Those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. The british picked out the right ships and the ri
World war. And going into extra time with brazil and chile battling it out in the world cup. Hello, we begin with the turmoil in iraq and what Government Forces are calling the zero hour. The offensive is under way just days after Iraqs Parliament will try to form a government. The army is claiming to have made big gains in retaking the city of takrit, but it is reported that they only have secured the outskirts of the city. There have been heavy airstrikes on mosul, iraqs second largest city. Reporter as iraq battles isil and sunni rebels on the ground the human cost is increasing. People flee from the fighting as it intensifies. Thousands are escaping and fear that the violence takes on a ceasinglan increasingly sectarian fighting. Isil rebels began to take territory, they would fight their way up to the outskirts of takrit. That town than abouts in the hands of Islamic State in iraq and the levant since june 11th and this latest offensive is did yo dubbed zero hour. Thee gentlema it
Considerations. He was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. He had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. Especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. He understood are that the federal system was fragmented. And preserving the union required negotiation. The war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. And in many ways it didnt succeed. Westerners made off better than the other regions they didnt get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. The english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the United States had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. The war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government, distant gove
Killed or by their wounds. In other words, they died as a direct result of combat in the war. I did some calculations, and i found that in fact about 10 more of the army died of disease, sickness, and other causes that are not directly related to battle. They were simply a product of the very unhealthy nature of military camps, the inability to provide decent sanitation, these sorts of things, which diseases, if they got into an arm camp, they could go through and take a very heavy toll on life substantially more men died as a result of disease, sickness. And then theres a bit of colateral damage that occurs that millyisha die as a result of the british raids of the sort weve been talking about. We might estimate that 15,000, 16,000 americans died one way or another as a result of the war of 1812. The indians suffered i think proportionately higher percentage of lossesle we dont know precisely, because we dont have good figures for indian population, but of course the numbers that the
Indeed less dangerous to their interests. The continental system, not this continent but the european continent, was beginning to destroy the economies of other european states. Napoleon protected france from the economic war by asset stripping all of the conquered territories. First country to rebel would be russia, napoleons only serious ally, and a Major Trading nation with a big export trade geared towards supplying the british market. Inside the continental system from 1807 to 1811 russia saw their economy collapse. Being part of napoleons team was very bad for your business. In 1811 the czar of russia, alexander, realized that if he carried on like this his country would be bankrupt and he would follow his father to an early grave. The last time russia had made war on brittain the czar was murdered and they changed the government. Basically most of the landowners in russia relied on selling goods to the british to pay their bills. So the czar decided that bankruptcy and debt was