The Forgotten War of 1812.

Interesting. I had an ancestor fight with the NY militia at the Battle of Lundy's Lane (about where the city of Niagara, Ontario is now), so I was interested in the land campaign that took place along the Niagara River border between Upper Canada and New York. Having spent time in Canada, I also learned it from the Canadian point of view - it is a much more significant event up there than it is down here, where we tend to focus on the naval victories. One of best objective histories of the land campaign is Canadian author Pierre Berton's two-volume set "The Invaision of Canada 1812-1813" and "Flames Across the Border 1813-1814" (published in the early 1980s and not often seen in the States). I was interested to learn that a lot of cross-border had gone on between Canada and the U.S., with children of evicted Loyalists who had emigrated to the States fighting on the U.S. side, and Americans who had emigrated to Canada enrolled in the British militia. I learned that the British burned Washington DC in 1814 in retaliation for the American destruction of what is now Toronto in 1813 (by General Pike, who died there). Anyway, it's a fascinating war that deserves more study.

Thank you for the great documentary.

In Canada we are remembered as the agressers in that war. Due to the fact we wrongly assumed the Canadians wanted to also be free of British rule. A on Amazon prime there is a Canadian documentary from their perspective. It’s very insightful.