<span>The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.</span>
The conflict because of the Indian an Americans
That meant that the South would have been starved of supplies and would have been forced to surrender.
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