The War of 1812 Author:Reginald Horsman For the United States, as for Canada, the War of 1812 stimulated the development of national feeling. The bitter arguments and near disunion of the conflict were forgotten in the glorious sense of relief produced by the repulse of the British, Baltimore, and, above all, New Orleans. The United States achieved none of her war aims in the peace ... more »treaty, but by 1814 the war begun to force a change in British policies had become a war for survival.« less