h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: War of 1812 - A992009
Author: anhaga (kleinus delendus est) - U215480

Maybe this is bad timing.

This was written as a part of Project America which may not be working out. The Project, not America.

Very nice Engaging and interesting. I liked it

Rather a lot of battles, though I suppose that is to be expected in a war.

I think a 'd' is missing from 'advance' here,
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in the account of the battle of Detroit.

I couldn't manage an overture.

Well done Anhaga, a coherent, brief write up of a confusing and totally needless war. Some really great links there as well, problem is I can see I'll be spending ages now wandering around the internet looking at some of the sites.

No criticisms.

according to my webster's, "advance" is right.

Oh good, you put it in

Yes indeed you are right, and according to the tiny part of my brain that deals with spellings and so forth, I am wrong..

My apologies.. I think I got confuddled because the sentence begins in the past tense and I was expecting "advanced" instead of "advance".

ah, I see. thank you for the careful attention.

Good this - gets the fog of war over nicely. If it doesn't go into project america it needs a different title - how about something that also embraces the bit you've written on later US territorial ambitions?

Sprout

Uh, I think the title is fine. The tiny bit I spend on later cross-border difficulties is simply a coda to the War of 1812: it's not meant to be anything like a full treatment.
It seems Project America is beyond stalled.
I'm having trouble understanding how an entry on the War of 1812 can be called "The War of 1812" if it's in Project America but it needs a different title if it's outside of the Project.

Well, there were quite a few wars going on in 1812 as I vaguely remember - I would have thought some sort of indication of where the war took place or who the belligerents were would help?

Sprout

The War of 1812 is what it's called. Just like the Boer War is the Boer War. Or the Yom Kippur War is the Yom Kippur War. We don't call World War II "the big war that a lot of countries took part in but actually most of the world didn't (even the Swiss who were right there in the middle." We call it World War II. And the War of 1812 is the War of 1812.

I understand your point, but this war has been referred to as the War of 1812 for so long that it really should be clear. And the indications you ask for come in the first paragraph, don't they?

Sort of - I just wonder, in a worldwide context, how many people will be able to identify the War of 1812 as being a US/Canada thing? Dunno. Not me anyway.

What else is it called??

I know it hasn't got another name - it's just that if I was writing an article about the Hundred Years War, I might add the dates and maybe some reference to France and England in the title...

Anyway, see what others think

Sprout

there are indications that not many people in the U. S. and Canada would know about the War of 1812, either. But that's what it's called in English language history books. If you do a google search on war of 1812 you get lots of hits, so somebody out there recognizes it. I think if we titled it "the War of 1812, a relatively minor side war of the Napoleonic wars that wasn't fought in Europe unlike the rest of them but was fought in North America between the United States and the British colonies which would later become Canada" we'd get the point across to everybody. But that's just going to far.

extensive, nice, good....
Didn't know about that whole Wheat War stuff...
Oberon2001

ah, they think our farmers getting together to get good prices for their wheat on the world market is unfair. We just think it's just a good business practice in a global economy. Who's right?

Hey, McKay:

I was just looking back over this thread and I noticed I didn't actually respond to your post. Thank you for noticing the entry (and the Tchaikovsky). You may have noticed I'm fond of links. Isn't that the whole point of hypertext? Maybe I should do a Tchaikovsky link. hmm . . .

I'm stupid tonight. I meant "Thank you for noticing the entry (and for the
Tchaikovsky)"