Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
And, not to say the heavy hit from a combination of the American colonies and French during that period causing a loss to the Crown therefrom. Though, after the fracas, the American imports of quality products such as razors and good steel items probably helped the UK economy more than the burdensome taxes that caused the first rhubarb and the American seamen losses which caused the second.
~Richard
Not only that Richard, but the war crossed the Atlantic to the States, mainly because the British Navy were forcibly impressing US citizens into the navy. The US would have preferred to stay out of it, so first of all they banned British goods, and later followed that by banning trade wit the UK and France. The main outcome of this was to upset US citizens, who relied on a healthy trade with the UK.

Because the British continued to take liberties and because the US continued to invade Canada - a British province, the US declared war on us in 1812.