The Battle of Newfoundland made the situation of the war between the United States and Britain even more confusing. www.biquge.info The United States lost four battleships, while Britain lost three, including the two most important Bellerophon classes, and although in general the British fleet had the upper hand, it was still unable to open up the situation.

In this plane, the United States is growing fast, almost the same as Kaihang, second only to Datang. It was the first to accept Datang-style industrialization, imitating Datang's model and successful experience, which made the United States increase its national strength tremendously. And in this era of rapid technological change, where almost all countries start on the same starting line, the old sail battleships of the British have no meaning in the naval race, and from this point of view, it is the Americans who start before the British.

In the other side of the 1812 U.S.-British War, the British had complete control of the seas and were able to maneuver to open up the battlefield. This has led them to repeatedly invade various parts of the American coastline, even including the capture of Washington after landing, and the burning of the White House, which is not yet fully built.

But in this plane, the Americans used all kinds of asymmetric weapons very cleverly, including aircraft and mines, and caused great trouble for the British Navy. Nelson had also thought about extending the war to enemy soil after suffering a loss in Newfoundland, when the Americans were left with only two Maine-class battleships, and they were so badly damaged in the battle that they could not continue to fight. The vast ocean was left to the Royal Navy, which could choose its own battlefield. Nelson's plan included destroying the remaining warships in American ports, destroying their Newport shipyard, and landing in Washington, D.C., to storm their capital. None of these plans, however, are operational.

The Americans either laid mines in important sea areas and estuaries, or these places were armed with heavy shore defense guns of caliber more than 305 mm. These shore defense guns are defended by reinforced concrete and even steel plates several meters behind, and they are not afraid of the main guns of the British battleships at all, but the British Royal Navy is afraid of being injured by these shore guns. The Datang Navy once assessed the coastal defense system of the Americans, believing that the battleships of the Datang had no hope of winning 100 percent in this kind of battle, and that it was more prudent to launch a large-scale air attack.

The British were almost helpless at this point, and although they still had a few capital ships left on their home soil, it seemed that joining the war at this time would not help. The British government had to find more diverse ways to deal with the situation, including enlisting international support and secretly organizing an anti-American struggle within Canada.

The British had nothing to gain strategically, and the Americans were equally uncomfortable. The second largest fleet in the Western Hemisphere, which they had built over the course of two decades, was almost entirely wiped out in the naval battle. The USS Connecticut, the fleet's flagship that carried President Madison's speech before the war, sank, leaving only two Maine-class shopers that were neither new nor old. Moreover, the entire fleet no longer has the ability to go to sea to continue fighting, and has become a complete existential fleet.

Fortunately, at least they kept the British out of the country, and the Americans wisely chose to place a large number of mines in important areas such as Halifax Harbor and the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, so that even without a fleet, the British could not complete their support for Canada, at least not so effectively.

A month after the Battle of Newfoundland, the British attempted a landing in New Brunswick, and the British sent a regiment of more than a thousand soldiers into battle. And here there is no American army, not even Canadian immigrants. Lacking supplies and means of maneuver, the British prepared to attack the important city of Monton, only to be ambushed by American troops outside the town and suffered heavy casualties. Without roads and railways, and without logistical supplies, the British could not complete their operational goal of maneuvering from New Brunswick to Upper Canada on the shores of the Great Lakes, and had to give up.

The British struggled to build supply lines off the coast of Canada, and the Americans also ran into walls throughout Canada. The anti-American actions of the Canadians became more and more intense, and in December 1802, there were even cases of Canadians who had run out of food without supplies for Christmas, and as a result, they rushed into the American barracks with explosives and died together.

At this point in the war, even the Americans are terrified. After all, this is a country that has not experienced much war. The militia that fought the War of Independence more than 20 years ago has long since been retired, not to mention that the key to the real victory of that year was the assistance of the Tang Dynasty. The U.S. Army, after its victory against the more formal British army, was once immersed in the joy of victory and was very optimistic about the situation. But their misdeeds in Canada made the Canadians extremely disgusted with the Yankees, and not only refused to obey their orders, but also attacked them by all possible means.

The U.S. military can't take every town in Canada, and it's nerve-wracking to sustain supplies at such a high cost. On the one hand, the Americans were counting on being able to force Britain to submit completely and cede Canada to them in its entirety. At the same time, the United States had to hold on, creating the fact that it had effective control over Canada.

And all this requires the United States to spend more on military spending, recruit more troops to destroy all resistance forces. Naturally, the U.S. government announced three new orders: first, the states raised their tax rates and introduced new taxes, including war taxes, to ensure the progress of the war, and the southern states with the highest tax rate increases by nearly 30 percent; Second, regardless of ethnicity, each county is conscripted according to a certain proportion, including Tennessee, Kentucky and other states in the west near the Mississippi River, that is, the Chinese living there are also obliged to participate in the war, and the conscription ratio in southern Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia is generally higher than that in northern states; Third, the abolition of slavery nationwide, in order to give slaves a certain living income after liberation, the federal government decided to recruit slaves into the army to pay their wages, and some slaves will become logistics services, in fact, the main thing is to build a highway from the United States to Canada to facilitate the transportation of more materials into Canada.

As soon as these three decrees were introduced, they immediately caused an uproar. On the one hand, at this time, the federal government has to grit its teeth and persevere, if it does not insist and give up, it is equivalent to the previous investment has become a sunk cost in vain; On the other hand, these obviously biased laws and regulations have harmed the interests of some states and some interest groups, and the contradictions within the United States have suddenly been magnified. (To be continued.) )