As the title suggests, TSR (a new Diplomacy/Role-Play gaming site) had it's second game of diplomacy.
http://thesmallrealm.proboards.com/thread/75/1812-overture-thread
New games will be launched soon.
Why wasn't it given a specific name, or an alternative name?
For example, the "Seven Years War" is also referred to as the "French and Indian War.
Another issue is that it wasn't JUST fought during the year of 1812. So why call it that?
Keep it, burn it like Washington, or use it as a temporary base for the war? Was there much of a long term plan, or were they focused more on taking it first?
“On June 1, 1812, President James Madison asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain. The bulk of his address indicted the British for violating America’s right to freedom of the seas and impressing American citizens into service in the British military. For these reasons, the War of 1812 is often seen as a "Second War for Independence." But Madison mentioned an additional cause for war: British support for "the savages … on our extensive frontiers," who practiced "a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity." Madison's words, of course, echoed the Declaration of Independence’s grievance against George III for inciting the "merciless Indian savages.” They revealed that, just as they had in 1776, Americans were going to war against Britain in 1812 to eliminate Native resistance so that they could possess Indian lands. Like the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 was not simply a war against Great Britain. Within the War of 1812 were other wars against Native nations.”
-Jeffrey Ostler. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019, page 151.
https://books.google.com/books?id=EoOVDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PP1&dq=jeffrey%20ostler%20surviving%20genocide&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Excerpt from James Madison’s letter asking Congress to declare war on Great Britain:
“In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain towards the United States, our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the Savages, on one of our extensive frontiers; a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex, and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0460
