Yeah the War of 1812 was the Brits telling escaped slaves and Natives "This is your big chance if you help us" followed by "nah peace out"
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The British did that a lot in their New World wars actually
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But yeah look up the Colonial Marines (not the ones from Aliens)
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Basically the Brits were pissed off and wanted to punish the Americans but didn't care enough to spend the resources to defeat us
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They didn't tell the escaped slaves or the Natives abt their lack of commitment though and it went very poorly for them
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And then there were the Seminole Wars... History sucks
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Ha let's think abt how up til the Civil War every "crisis" that ends with the US winning is basically "Nope slavery is gonna continue"
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US wins war with Mexico "Look at all this new territory we're gonna have slavery in"
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Remember the Alamo, a bunch of guys who died for the right to own slaves even though it was illegal in the country they were currently in
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The First, Second and Third Seminole Wars, i.e. if you escape the US will hunt you down even if you go to the very ass end of Florida
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All that crappy swampland in Florida we didn't originally want but didn't want slaves running away to, thank Jackson for that
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