Francis Scott Key composed "The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the shelling of Fort McHenry during this war.
This war's battles of Chateauguay and Crysler's Farm caused one side to give up on an attempt to invade their northern neighbor. Edward Pakenham died during one of this war's battles, whose winning side was assisted by the pirate Jean Lafitte. One skirmish in this war resulted in the sinking of the Guerriere, and one side's capital was (*) burned after they lost at Bladensburg. Francis Scott Key composed "The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the shelling of Fort McHenry during this war. For ten points, name this war between Britain and America which resolved by the Treaty of Ghent and fought about thirty years after the Revolutionary War.
This war's battles of Chateauguay and Crysler's Farm caused one side to give up on an attempt to invade their northern neighbor.
War of {1812}