April 29, 2019 Monday
Bedtime Story
The Third Front of War of 1812
The collection of the income of the US
Customs went down from $13 million in 1811 to $ 6 million in 1814.
Thus the Atlantic theatre of 1812 war
though gave Americans some success in single ship battles overall the economic
damage that it inflicted upon the nation can be considered to be crippling.
(3.) The Southern States and the
southwestern territories – was the third theatre of war of 1812 that was taking
place between the United States and United Kingdom.
It was, of the three theatres of war of
1812, most unique as its population comprised on native Indians also known as
the
Red Sticks who wished to preserve their
traditional leadership and culture against the cultural onslaught of the
European-American settlers.
If the rest of the United States or the
Mid-Atlantic is considered to “the typical America” then the Southern states
would an atypical one.
For the Indians in some sense the
“traditional” or “the typical American” was an enemy as much as the British was
to the United States.
This irony was lost on the White Americans
I think.
The British and the other European powers
used this existing discord between the two Americas to their advantage by fortifying
the Red Stick Creeks with arms and supplies to fight the Americans.
The United States or the European American
settlers of the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic saw this resistance
to their modernity and progressive way of life as Red Stick militancy.
The word “Creeks” comes from the various river
creeks that exist in the southern states of Alabama, Georgia and Florida such
as Coosa, Tallapoosa, Alabama and Chattahoochee (note the funny sounding Indian
names).
The coastal states of Southern United
States that have Gulf of Mexico as their coastline are called the Gulf States
and include Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
In 1812 these states were under the
territorial control of the European powers and therefore were sandwiched in the
conflict and jostling for supremacy between the European powers of France,
Spain and Britain besides the United States which was battling all these three.
The Native Americans or the Red Sticks only
complicated the problem adding yet another dimension for the “White” powers.
It was indeed a bloody and messy time for
everybody living in this region but particularly for the native Indians caught
between the major powers with none of them interested in preserving the native
traditions and culture of Red Sticks.
For them it was all about the battle for land
and resources of the virgin territory of Southern United States.
I am certain that most immigrants living in
the United States would not be aware what these terms (Southern States and
southwestern territories) exactly mean though they must be having a loose and
inaccurate idea about these geographical and historical terms.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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