What would have happened if Britain had won the War of 1812?

One principle reason that the Americans sought independence was in order to spread westward over the Appalachians. The crown had maintained a policy of reserving those lands for Native use. Had the Brits won, they likely would have maintained a policy of forced exclusion from the Louisiana Purchase for white settlers. read more

Great Britain did win the War of 1812; however it was a stalemate. Britain saw no need to continue the pointless fighting and the Americans didn't want to suffer more casualties for a failed invasion of pro-British Canadian territory. In 1815, at the end of the war, Britain had: Pushed back the entire American advancement into Canada. read more