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more or less had lost twice to Americans.
>7
Cheating doesn't exist in war. Git gud kiddo.
>8
The burning of Washington was intended as a full on naval invasion of the Chesapeake Bay, it ended with total humiliation of the British invading force, with a rag-tag American militia having managed to kill the leading general of the invading force and repel them back to the ocean; years later, British historians tried to say the invasion was a "raid" to further cope with the humiliation
>7
Rag-tag Kentucky and Tennessee militia-men, totally untrained, along with a small regiment of Regulars totally decimated the cream of the crop British Peninsular veterans who were celebrated Highland regiments. There were 2,000 British casualties to only 12 Americans hurt or killed. It genuinely might be one of the most humiliating defeats in British military history.
>the entire war was just a minor distraction
"We barely managed to fight cash & resource poor former colonies with less than half our population and no standing army into a status quo antebellum because we got too busy paying the Austrians & Russians to fight Napoleon for us," isn't a very good brag.