What do wars accomplish?
Two postings ago we discussed the Seven Years War (1756-1763) that shaped not only a continent but the modern world. The War of 1812-14 changed little if anything in North America.
In Europe it defeated Napoleon, and in the Congress of Vienna that followed, Prince Metternich tried to put things back they way they were before the French Revolution.
In North America ...
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