>>>>>My take on WHO WON revolves around achievement of set goals. The US goal was to conquer Canada and the British goal was to prevent this. The US ended the war in the last quarter of 1814 fighting a defensive action on their own soil, thus not achieving any of their original goals, in fact facing the real delemma of loosing their country (however, this was never a British goal). By 1815, the US lacked the funds to continue the war, and the British must have been strained financially as well after many years fighting Napoleon What about the Orders in Council? That was much of the problem. Those were rescinded, albeit too late to stop the War. What about British impressment? It stopped. While it is true that the "War Hawks" in our Congress wanted to take Canada, most people weren't in favor of that. They were mad about the trade issues and the impressment. Rose in KY