{"id":149,"date":"2012-10-23T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2012-11-27T03:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T03:48:50","slug":"the-american-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/explore-history\/the-american-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The American War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_635\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing.jpg\" alt=\"A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814\" title=\"A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814\" width=\"625\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full page-image wp-image-635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/files\/2012\/10\/3A-GR01-landing-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A View of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British Fleet \u2026 on the Morning of the 13th Sept. 1814<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The United States declared war against Great Britain in June 1812 in response to British encroachments on  American sovereignty. While American forces failed to conquer Canada, they captured several British frigates and won defensive battles against British invasions of the United States. Americans have come to view the war as a nation-building experience.  It won international respect for their power and sovereignty, inspired their national anthem and sanctified  their national flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States declared war against Great Britain in June 1812 in response to British encroachments on American sovereignty. While American forces failed to conquer Canada, they captured several British frigates and won defensive battles against British invasions of the United States. Americans have come to view the war as a nation-building experience. It won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/2321"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museedelaguerre.ca\/guerre-de-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}