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  • The British Navy Impressed 10,000 US citizens,That's why War was declared in 1812. At Least Our borders were respected after the War of 1812,It wasn't true after the American Revolution(The British still had forts in Ohio in Violation of the treaty).

  • the squriel then the crocidille its a bit like kinky boots great

  • Let's not forget that the United States declared war on Britain and promptly invaded Canada first.

    But the United States were fought back and had to retreat from their invasion of Canada.

    So in terms of the invasion of the North, it was a failure for the US.

    Eventually everyone retreated to their prior borders.

    (The Battle of New Orleans in 1814 was fought after the cease fire had already been declared.)

  • hey canda and bitish sick, we kicked YOUR ass and we can still kick your ass

  • Yeah, yeah, us Canadians/Brits still kicked your ass in the end!

  • wouldnt you rather get paid in honest American gold for Tim Hortons coffee and timbits or do you like the taste of your queens beaver

  • The british monatary system of fiat specie by a fractional reserve central bank has been a proven failure in America over the last century of corruption, the canadian nickle or "the queens beaver" is now actually raising in value.Our Constitution mandates a bicameral precious metal legal tender system in Article One section 8 and 10.England and canada have indeed been victorious in corrupting Americas money like its own.Now get the Fuck out with your paper $ and get the fuck out of Ireland too.

  • Canada had nothing to do with this war. It was still a British colony thing

  • "Colony thing" ?

  • @madmanninc

    Jealously Is Most Bitter In The Uneducated.

  • That explains allot with your present president.

  • pretty much

  • That was no Alligator, That was some kind of Fish.

  • Hows your independance? Lets see you killed your two decent presidents. J.F Ken and Lincoln. You started a civil war. You attacked Viatnam. Your most recent. You vote in Bush then attack Iraq. Thank God you're independant because I would hate to be conjoined to a nation like that!

  • plus shoot me and im coming back at u ,English STYLE ,u yanks cunts !

  • fuck that knob head in that movie ,i would kill em !!! England is the place !!!

  • yeah, but that happened because you guys fought countries that were either too small, too weak to defend themselves, or that had no desire to fight back.

  • Keep ur yank movies about being better than us ,but we will get ,for Queen  and Country !!

  • Britain -the bigest Empire ever .

  • if it was easier to get 2 ya over the sea we woulda beat ya ,ENGLAND till i DIE !!British Blood !!!

  • Wow. I didn't realize there were this many ignorant people in this world, The U.S. did win the Battle of New Orleans and they do teach it in school I specifically remember learning about this. Also there was a Battle of New Orleans in the Civil War but this song is talking about the one that took place during the war of 1812, There weren't any Brits in the Civil War dumbasses. Hence the name Civil War.

  • one more thing what do you mean we? you werent in it.. they were...

  • what does the ww2 have to do with the civil war dumb ass? i beat you dont know anything about these wars. you just play the games thinking you know everything. almost all of my cousins were in. civil war,ww1,ww2,and now..

  • hell ya jackson showed them brits out

  • good song

  • USA 2

    GB 0

  • i m pretty sure u guys invaded us before we invaded you

  • yes and they did and LOST

  • Hey, we successfully defended our homeland from the British invasion, and got the rest of the world to respect our sovereignty and military strength which was the major reason for us going to war. I would call that a victory.

  • the funny thing is that we burned down the white house. during this war

  • the funny thing is that we saved buckingham palace from turning into a German building twice

  • who cares?

  • hows that a victory? look at all the countries that have independence now, a complete disgrace to their ancestors

  • hey tommipastrami i agree with you dude

    Usa 2

    GB 0

    lol

  • squirels with gunz

  • i love this song!

  • hey my computer has a wcam on it ne1 want to help me chat E

  • You're both wrong actually.

    Canada didn't rebel because most of the people who lived or moved there were in fact loyalists. The only rebels in Canada were French. And even they closed ranks.

    America was also too broke to carry on with more war. Britain turned to its empire on the other side of the world.

    The first US government displaced 1000s of folk and stole their plantations in the process. George Washington himself had black slaves that had previously worked for a royalist family.

  • ok first thats offensive it was a typo and I do go to florida everyonce in a while, and i know the pop. was small that wasn't the point

  • lol are you saying the french had troops in America fighting the british?

    AT most the only help they gave was ammunition and supplies

  • in the revolution they had lots of troops and ships in the colenies helping them fight the british, in the war of 1812 they didn't but were fighting a largew war with britian in europe. the person who made the video makes it sound like the battle of new orleans was part of the revolution, it wasn't it was part of the war of 1812 witch is never taught in america becouse they didn't win it

  • nooo8ooooo shut the fuck up because usa HAS won the war and plus british had 0 points i mean come on you need canadians to help you guys ? we didnt need anyone and we still kicked your ass, the 1812 war was taught in america alright ? stfu and die thank you.

  • for the record i am canadian, but really usa didn't win and britain didn't win, plus canada was part of britian, and was fight most of the powes in the world already at the time, but if you want to beleave what you want go ahead

  • but both sides learned from those battles and now we have a strong bonda fact i know you wont argue

  • yep that's the first thing somewon said that wasn't bias, your right

  • for instance the brits didn't like that americans hid behind trees, ambushed them, and targeted officers during the revolution but later the brits used the same tactics against the french with the 95th reg. and after the war of 1812 the americans rethought their strategies because of all their loses to the brits.

  • 1.11 so funy. A little squarel with a M249.

  • It's rather ironic and most people do not know this fact....

    The very same infantry, the Black Watch in the British Army who earlier had defeated Napoleon's army at Waterloo was later handed a stunning defeat by Andrew Jackson's young and inexperienced US Army at New Orleans. Whether the Brits want to deny it or not, the Americans could hold their own and crush the enemy on the battlefield.

  • its johnny horton singin this song not jimmy driftwood

  • ahhhhhh squril with a gun!!!

  • very good for making it at 2:00 o'clock in the moring

  • 2:01 we fucking owned the damned limey lobster backs!!!

  • Everyone seems to forget something very important... there were actually two series of battles fought in New Orleans.

    The first was in 1815 during the War of 1812 and the second battle was fought in 1862 during the American Civil War.

  • im from the uk and i like the us so y all the calling

  • series15000 you must be the most stuoidist person to say what you said to all of us.Asshole.

  • And the Alagator is a battle ship USA.

  • Great video. You did a wonderful job on putting pictures to this great song.

  • brittish tactics were terrible at the time, have a bunch of guys holding flags and beating drums dressed in fancy bright red uniforms march twords the enemy, all fire in a general direction at once (aiming above the enemys position) then everybody reload in unicen, just plain stupid

  • Soldiers of every major army, including the American army, in the world at that time fired together, reloaded together, and marched together with flags and drums. The British did not deliberately aim above the enemy. Armies fought in the way I earlier described partly because of the relatively poor weaponry available. Muskets had to be fired together to increase the chance that a lot of the enemy was hit.

  • yea the resaon ameria won is casue the miltia used guerlla and indain tatics like hiding and ambushing and attacking there supply routes

  • Well we did need recruits for our navy.

    You yanks do get hot under the collar over a silly little war,mind you if we had wanted we could have distroyed your young republic as we did Washington and the White House.

    Anyhow all good friend now...toddle pip.

  • americans are faggits they can never win a war on there own they are fags

  • hey who are you callin faggots? the british are the forebeares of homosexuality.

  • diddent they come save ur asses during ww2, despite u invading them

  • we did not invade them

    and they turnd p after it was over

    and fuck off

  • The first invasion of the War of 1812 was by the United States against British-administered territory.

  • Americans have never win a war on their own?

    I beg to differ...

    Mexican-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Philippine-American War

    Barbary Wars

    Invasion of Panama

    Invasion of Grenada

    And likewise, we annhillated Japan during World War Two and most of the operations in the Persian Gulf war 1990-1991 were American led.

  • Oh and yeah... the Civil War... the South got owned

  • more american propoganda

    no one likes you america

  • The battle of New Orleans was fought AFTER the USA had already given in to the British!

  • Mage13246, Canada actually WAS involved in the War of 1812, VERY involved. The largest battle ever fought in Canadian soil took place in this war, the Battle of Lundy's Lane. Chryslers Farm and Queenston Heights also took place in Canadian soil, and we foght both Canadian troops and British as well as their indian allies.

  • Um dude Canada had nothing to do with the War of 1812 and if you do please read your history again.

  • canada did have something to do with the war of 1812, it was the canadians who burnt down the white house...a little fact you yanks seem to forget, that and we also well supported the brits...because we were pussies at that time

  • And you Canuskcs seem to forget that we burnt down your little colonial capital of York ;)

  • no they did not. Canada wasn't even a country in 1812 o.O

    The british burnt down the White House. The only reason you say Canadians did it is because Canada was around not as a country, but as a colony under the british crown.

  • canada was a bunch of colenies belonging to britian but unlike the states we didn't rebel, costing thousands of lives, in a war you culdn't have won if frace, spain, and holland hadden't have helped you. Now they all dislike you becouse everywon forgot how they helped you, canada waited and is now traeted better by everywon

  • Where is Frace? Do you mean "France"? Are you a spelling class dropout?

    I hate to burst your peace-loving pacifist non-violent Canadian theory, but Canada didn't rebel against the British because its population was so small they would have had trouble putting together a hockey league, let alone a formidable army.

    Please, get over your American envy and enjoy your summers in Florida and California!

  • You see all those prettty marble palaces in England & lords who don't work.Some of that marble and timber was gutted from where? America.We kicked them out because we refused King Georges method of buying our wealth. We refused his paper money for our natural resourses. But the central bank of England just could not except that,so guess what, they invaded again. So we had pirates like Jean Lafite(a cajun)freed blacks,creoles and voluterns from the voluteer state Tennessee.

  • english people r bad boys we will take over the world ok u sad fucks

  • we beat the british twice, we can do it again. our military is def superior. but i would hate to lose a valuable allie esp since i have family over there

  • From Tennessee: FUCK YOU! Death to the New World Order AND the english!

  • love this song!

  • first off the canadians had NOTHING to do with the American War for Independence... in fact after the war, Canada was STILL a colony of the british crown... In fact,,, many loyalists fled to canada after our independence was won. And second off, we did not have a second war of independence... the war of 1812 was about the fact that british war ships were capturing american merchant ships, and forcing thier crews into labor!!!!

  • The NW Ord. and the Art. of Confed. had invited Canada to be a part of the USA. They foresaw that uniting with the 13 colonies would be disastrous to their independence, as was shown by the Civil War where the "confederate" states decided the contract had been breached and wanted to go their own way, which did not set well for the power usurpers in D.C. So much for a voluntary union, and "govt...deriving their just power by the consent of the governed, as laid out in the Decl. of Ind., eh?

  • LOL 1:09 Squrlle green Barete. WHEN SQURIllES ATTACK. thats eather a really small gun or a big ass squrelle love the song poor gator i can't spell squrille so dont gripe at me about it

  • what clan are you im campbell

  • this song is by jonny horton not jimmy driftwood u dumbass

  • Does it really matter? Who gives a shit?

  • no shit

  • kinda funny how canadians think canada won the war, first off it was considered a stale mate and when will they realize canada wasn't a country than, and they were all british troops

  • great vid!

    5/5

  • I like this song.

  • Run British run! lol

  • The British never ran, they withdrew from the field. It was the Americans that ran from the attacking British at Queenston Heights. Americans are all happy when they've got their guns firing but upon the point of a British bayonet they're as good as dead.

  • This is the version sang by Johnny Horton, not Jimmie Driftwood. Jimmie's version is longer, with more profanity...

  • yeahhhhhhh!!!! we fucked those homos up!!!! wooooo!!!

  • OMG i loved the squril guns pic lol

  • the battle of new orleans was the only battle the USA won in the war of 1812. The US lost the war, for they never took any land over(which was there primary objective). And this battle happened AFTER the war ended.

  • um hey usa dum ass ever heard of isac broke kicked u as not 1 solider on our side died in his 1st battle

  • Err... xz707- Brock DIED during his first real battle with the US. He DIED leading his troops in battle while counterattacking US positions.

    And how would you feel being called a Canadian/British Dumb ass? Does the concept of being civil have any meaning to you?

  • Great victory for the United States,propelled Andrew Jackson into a National Hero.

  • Haha, squirrel gun, hahaha, GENIUS! I love it!

  • LOL this is very well edited, good job!

  • Actually we wore red because we were the first nation to find a red dye that was cheap. And the battle of New Orleans well although we lost that fight i'm proud of those brave lads in red who piled into them yanks. And it isnt the 2nd war of independence America declared war on us so we were obliged to invade them and burn the White house after they tried to take Canada. And the Yanks did just as much running as us.

  • Thanks for making it easier to kill you guys, really appreciate it.

  • hey dude we won the battle of new orleans i should no i live there

  • willsjoseph me to i live in destrehan i found a cannon ball in my backyard lol

  • Hat jemand dsa Bild bei 1:09 und könnte es mir schicken bitte?

    und n1 Video...

  • yeah america

  • Thx for a great video, Ireland!

    I'm from holland and not familiar with American History so it's the very first time i ever learned about this 2nd war of independence. Until yesterday, i only knew about an song called 'Mexico'from Les humfries singers back from the 1970s, with obviously messed-up lyrics. I was wondering what story was behind it if any, so a friend at youtube pointed me here. I think its just super!

    No better way to learn about history!

  • Moy!

  • wanna know more about 1812? The americans new that Canada was full of rich furs and crops, as well as land. So while they thoguht Britain was to busy oversea's to help Canada, they invaded. president (im not sure who) said it would be mere marching to take Canada. he was wrong. the first battle was in defeat for the americans, many more battles followed. The Canadain troops burned the white house to the ground. The battle of New Orleans was the only battle the americans won in the war of 1812.

  • canadian troops? u mean british

  • wow Are you mentaly retarded that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Get a history book and read it Oh and if us Americans only won one battle HOW DID WE WIN THE WAR! You stupid motherfucker.

  • Actually, the Americans did not win the War of 1812 - it's widely regarded as a stalemate, with the the American forces being repulsed and neither side losing/gaining ground. However, don't listen to that idiot shadowboy...he's a moron. Of course New Orleans wasn't the ONLY battle the Americans won. He's a dummy.

    Just thought I'd add that.

  • The war ended in a stalemate the British withdrew soldiers later in the war they were losing money by the years. Yes we claimed victory but it neither country won but it ptoved America had a powerful military.

  • but didnt america recruit anybody they could like farmers and used gurilla tactics? (cant spell)

  • You are aware that the Battle of New Orleans wasn't the ONLY battle the Americans won right shadowboy??  You'll have to make sure your facts are correct before posting ridiculous assertations and moronic rants. You'll only look much more stupid when you post such drivel.

  • LMFAO canada never fought in this war you dumb ass! shadowboy Canada was still a colony under British rule. Please take note that it was Brits vs Americans and it was the british that burned down the white house moron! PLEASE LOOK UP FACTS IN YOUR HISTORY BOOK IF YOU HAVE ONE!

  • well, thats the bloody brittish for yer, I neva seen a fella run so fast as I did here in sydney australia,,,,,,,,

  • wat is in the top left hand side of th australian flag the union jack australians are british

  • war of 1812 was caused by britain AND france seizing our ships, we asked both of them to stop and britain falt out said no, we stopped trading with both of them for a while and britain agreed to stop, but 3 days late, for U.S declared war on britain

  • The British were just looking to get their ass kicked I guess. Wearing bright red uniforms in front of Tennessee marksmen....how stupid can you get?

  • If you had paid attention in your history classes, you would understand the purpose of a Red Uniform and Psychological warfare. It was the surprise use of Batavarian Cannon crews that caused the massive casualties. The Uniform color made no difference in this era.

  • Camouflage was unimportant in the days of short-range flintlock muskets that made lots of smoke. Visibility on the battlefield cut down on "friendly fire". Few Tenn. riflemen killed anybody that day. Most hid behind the ramparts, as did most US infantry soldiers. The idea that riflemen wone the Battle of New Orleans is a romantic myth, but a myth, nonetheless. The overwhelming majority of British casualties at the Battle of New Orleans were caused by massed, deadly American cannon fire.

  • they wore red because if they got shot, then the other soldiers wouldnt see the blood and become scared

  • they wore red so if they got shot, then other soldiers couldnt see blood and become scared

  • LOL, the one picture has the British in front of modern bridges!

    Great video, though!

  • So where's the picture of the rabbit?

  • i thought american defeted british at yorktown?

  • differant war.

  • Nice to see that there ar americans who show a similar pride in freedom that the irish do

  • The War of 1812 was a stalemate. The 200th anniversary of the war is coming up in 5 years.

  • Auuuu get tem damn brits woooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yeah, we didn't invade you in 1812. You invaded us in your war of aggression. We were defending ourselves. Sounds similar to whats happening today. (BTW, the Orders and Press Ganging has ceased before America declared war on Britain so those weren't the reasons. Lookup "Manifest Destiny" and you'll see the real reason the American government was so keen to make war.

  • We invaded a SUBJUGATED COLONY, not your country itself. The siege of Quebec was a British invasion of Canada. Look up "mercantillism" and "British imperialism" to find out why England invaded over 1/4th of the globe, Canada was jack compared to the Brits. Amritsar, Bloody Sunday 1 and 2, etc. etc.

  • Yes, forcing American sailors had stopped before the war began, but news didn't reach the US until after War was declared. If the British had never done it at all, it would of not been an issue. And just because they stopped doesn't mean they didn't deserve punishment.

  • Nice song!!

  • Ok, so who do you think was responsible for bringing the towers down through controlled demolition? Because muslims didnt plant all those charges.

  • Why can't "Muslims" plant charges? They've done it before. (They are'nt real Muslims, thus the quotation marks)

  • Well if you mean that agents of the United States government brought those buildings down. I agree.

  • I don't believe that.

  • How did muslim extremists manage to wire up 2x110 & 1x50 story sky scrapers with thermite and explosive charges to bring them down at free fall speed? (Controlled demolition)

  • But those buildings came down at free fall speed. Which means controlled demolition. We've already got a positive chemical result for thermite being used. Would the Israelis be able to wire up some of the largest buildings in the world like that? What's more likely?

  • No no, I don' think the Israelis did it, but I think they knew beforehand, and delibrately kept the information from us to make it more likely to go to war in the Middle East, and attack some countries not on Israel's supporter list.

  • Well, who do you think is behind 9-11?

  • Muslim extremists, with the Israeli Mossad's knowledge.

  • I agree with ireland88. But short of that, JP5 aircraft fuel, along with a simple high school knowledge of phyics.  Kinetic energy (ie enery in motion) the principle is KE=one half the mass multiplied by the velocity squared. No conspiracy there. Simple physics and engineering. Metal fatigues under heat. And getting a giant slug slammed into it. Intelligence failure. Plain and simple

  • Ron Paul is really your last hope for America. God willing.

  • Haha exactly!

  • Yes and when 9-11 is exposed for the false flag operation/excuse to invade the ME that it is, some heads are gonna roll. Time for another revolution?

  • I'd say, that's why I'm a Libertarian! :)

  • But notice that "Manifest Destiny" is alive and well today. We only need look at the Iraq debacle now to realise this. The Neo-Cons in 2000 wrote a document through PNAC called "Rebuilding America's Defences", which basically called for the take over of the Middle East! And now they are doing it. My nation is corrupted, and so is yours today. What a shame.

  • That is deffinitely true, the neo-cons have taken a note from the Manifest Destiny manual, all right.

    I take my learning from the just war theory from St. Thomas Aquinas. I don't glorify the war of 1812, or any war, but I think that history is important to learn to better our societies and our nations.

  • Just war theory is St. Augustine.

  • Yeah, just war theory of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.

  • Listen, I'm not supporting press ganging, nor am I supporting Napoleon, as America was doing. So there was wrong on both sides. I was originally making the point that America declared war and were the first to invade another country - Canada. So please don't talk in terms of "valiantly defended the republic from the threat of foreign invasion" because you guys invaded us first! Not to mention the Indians (whom we protected), were subsequently massacred for the sake of US "Manifest Destiny".

  • If Britain was trading with Osama Bin Laden you'd do something similar yourselves if you needed the men so that your country could survive. Napoleon needed defeating, otherwise it would have been the end of Britain and the end of free europe. Hitler 150 years sooner, except he'd have won. Anyway, we'd stopped press ganging, but America STILL declared war on us. Which shows that conquest of Canada & the Native Americans was REALLY on the mind of the US Government.

  • I don't see the comparison between Osama bin Laden and Napoleon, but it's in the past. The sailors weren't given back, were they? Or were they pitted aganist Napoleon's man o' wars, and killed in the hundreds?

  • dont compare napoleon to hitler. napoleon never comitted genocide against anyone.

  • I was just making the points that this war was really over American expansionism, not a British invasion. America used British press ganging as an excuse to declare war on Britain, but this had really ended by the time the bill passed in congress. America was trying, by conquest, to take advantage of the fact Britain was at war with France, in order to conquer the entirety of North America. But they failed. Anway, just read Wikipedia.

  • Wikipedia says THOUSANDS were kidnapped and forced into a war they wanted no part of against their will. You impeded on the sovreignty of the American people through illegal kidnapping, thus the declaration of war. Whether or not SOME people wanted to invade Canada, to free it or conquer it we do not know. What I do know is that prepare for war if you take Americans hostage.Somehow I don't think Britain would like it if we did that to you.

  • "The British were engaged in a life-and-death war with Napoleon and could not allow the Americans to help the enemy, regardless of their theoretical neutral rights to do so. As Horsman explains, "If possible, England wished to avoid war with America, but not to the extent of allowing her to hinder the British war effort against France." - Wikipedia.

  • "The officially-stated reasons for declaring war were ending impressment..and ending British military support for western native tribes, a major goal..was aggressive territorial expansion. The intent was to drive the British out of North America. One faction in congress had a desire to conquer Canada while the British were occupied in their war with France. As it happened, the British were no longer impressing seamen at the time the bill was passed." - Wikipedia.

  • Yes I agree, a people should not be governed without consent. Back to the War of 1812, I just wanted to make the point that it was the United States which invaded us first, to which we retaliated. So, it wasn't us declaring war. We were taking your men for the Royal Navy, but you have to understand that we were literally in a war for survival against Napolean, and seeing as America was aiding our evil enemy we did that as a means to an end. Ugly but understandable in some ways.

  • But the American navy wasn't helping Napoleon, it was only the Louisiana Purchase that went to France.

  • I agree with you there. We should never have been in Ireland, but it was good that we could strike a deal so that they could gain independence without all out war. Northern Ireland is different. I see you're an IRA supporter so you'll probably disagree with me. Fact is, most Northern Irish are loyalists and happy to remain British. So with NI it's the will of the people in a democracy. Anyway, this was supposed to be about the War of 1812.

  • True true I apologize. Just thought I'd bring to light that it's not impossible for a conquered country of Britain's to resent and resist rule.

  • Well, they are free to leave the Union any time they wish. I might as well say that Texas, California and Iowa "swear fealty to a federal government and have to fight in any war Washington chooses to wage." It's nonsensical. Surely you believe in the United States, we believe in the United Kingdom. Our Union has lasted for 200 years and it has stood us in good stead.

  • Tell the Irish they benifited from the Union. They'll laugh in your face.

  • Yes because they were part of our Empire, we gave them independence as we have eventually done for all our other colonies. Now, Quebecians are French, but the majority of Canadians outside Quebec are from Scottish, Irish, English stock. Well, you may want the commonwealth to shatter but that's not the case for the majority of its members who appreciate the privileges of membership. Can we get back to the point now?