land forces, the American Navy secured notable victories in the Atlantic and on the Great Lakes, while Britain was forced to concentrate its efforts on the ongoing war with France. In the first several years of the war, in contrast to the setbacks experienced by U.S. Lawrence, and Lake Champlain-Richelieu, along coastal Maine, in the Chesapeake Bay, on the Gulf Coast, and on the high seas. During the War of 1812, fighting on land and at sea took place in several theaters of operations to include the Old Northwest (Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Upper Canada), along the river corridors of the Niagara, St. On 18 June 1812, the United States formally declared war on Great Britain due to that nation’s continued attempts to restrict trade on the high seas, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen, and the United States’ desire to expand territory.
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