Amanda Foreman, “The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do,” in Smithsonian Magazine (July 2014).
“…For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it—the American, the British, the Canadian and the Native American. Moreover, among Americans, the chief actors in the drama, there are multiple variations of the versions, leading to widespread disagreement about the causes, the meaning and even the outcome of the war…”