Quotation from: The Beginner's American History

Written by: D.H. Montgomery


The next year (1812) we began our second war with England. It is
called the War of 1812. One of the chief reasons why we fought was
that the British would not let our merchant ships alone; they stopped
them at sea, took thousands of our sailors out of them, and forced
the men to serve in their war-ships in their battles against the
French.


[Illustration: THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON IN FLAMES IN THE WAR OF
1812.]

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