Most historians appear to also have avoided the topic, with relatively few books on the topic being published. Even at the time of the war it was only on the periphery of the British public, whose main interest was in the massive Napoleonic Wars taking place across the English Channel. More recent and much larger wars from the past century remain at the forefront of many when thinking of their nations’ military history. The War of 1812 today tends to fall into a list of wars that are commonly forgotten by both Americans and British. Though it was not the first conflict that the still fledgling US Navy had taken part in, the War of 1812 would be the first real test of the Navy’s mettle.
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