User:Mike McGregor (Can)/1812 infobox

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War of 1812
Date 1812-1815
Location North America
Result Treaty of Ghent
Belligerents
United States United Kingdom
Canadian Indian forces Native Americans
Commanders
Andrew Jackson
Winfield Scott		 British:George Prevost
Indians allied:Tecumseh
Strength
United States
  • Regular army : 57,000
  • Volunteers: 10,000*
  • Rangers: 3,000
  • Militia: 458,000**
  • Naval and marine: 20,000

Indigenous peoples

  • New York Iroquois: 600
  • Northwestern allies: ?
  • Southern allies: ?
 United Kingdom
  • Regular army: 10,000+
  • Naval and marine: ?
  • Canadian militia: 86,000+**

Indigenous peoples

  • Total: 3,500?
Casualties and losses
2,260 killed in action,
4,505 wounded in action,
205+ executed,
17,000 other deaths,
500? civilian deaths		 5,000 killed or wounded
* Volunteers were semi-professional troops
** Most militia did not participate in fighting or campaigning

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War of 1812
Image:Battle of Queenston Heights.jpg
The Battle of Queenston Heights by James B. Dennis depicts the unsuccessful American landing on October 13, 1812.
Date June 4, 1812- Febuary 1815
Location Eastern and Central North America, Gulf Coast, Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Result status quo ante bellum
Belligerents

  • United States
  • Indigenous peoples
  • United Kingdom
  • Canadian colonial forces
  • Indigenous peoples
Commanders

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Winfield Scott
  • George Prevost
  • Tecumseh
Strength

  • U.S. Army: 35,800
  • Rangers: 3,049
  • Militia: 458,463
  • US Marines: ?
  • US Navy: ?
  • Indigenous peoples: ?
  • British and Provincial Regulars: 48,163
  • Militia: 4,000
  • Royal Naval and Marines: ?
  • Provincial Marine: ?
  • Indigenous peoples: ?
Casualties and losses

  • Killed
  • Wounded
  • Disease and other
  • Civilian
  • Killed
  • Wounded
  • Disease and other
  • Civilian
notes

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  • Use peak strengths for both during entire war...
  • "At the end of June this total grew again when Congress voted to maintain a regular army of 35,735 officers and soldiers." [1]
  • " In June 1812 the (US) regular army had only 11,000 men, 5,000 of whom were new recruits who barely knew how to handle a gun." [2]