The Weight of Vengeance Quotes

“The War of 1812 was, at least in part, America’s grand attempt to compel Europe to take the United States seriously as a sovereign nation.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“the British government was thinking beyond the immediate war to a future in which a defeated United States could be hemmed in by an Anglo-Spanish–American Indian alliance.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“the now-famous Cunards, who established their shipping business during the war and made their first transatlantic passenger voyage in 1813.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“In March 1812 the British Caribbean press described how the British squadron based at Jamaica had earlier captured a “Haytian frigate.” In response, the paper reported, “the Haytian chief, Bourgelas” had threatened to kill “all the remaining white inhabitants” in his district of the island unless the Royal Navy returned the frigate.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“The United States was undeniably imperialist in 1812. Within two generations it had doubled its size, dispossessing the native inhabitants of their land and stripping the declining Spanish Empire of huge swaths of its territory.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“American notaries, port authorities, local governments, customs officials, American diplomats in Britain, and British agents issued certificates, which varied wildly in reliability.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“The concept of citizenship was still novel in 1812, with the vast majority of people who were living in North America and Europe placing far more value on residency, race, ethnicity,”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“Generally Americans held that citizenship was a choice and thus allowed naturalization, while Britain held that an individual’s subjection to the sovereign of the country of his birth was indissoluble.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“In Britain, the advertising business was so complex that the Scotch, English, and Irish Newspapers, and Advertising Office in Edinburgh offered clients access to 115 newspapers across the empire, including the Botany Bay Gazette and the Madras Courier.28 Good communications networks and fierce competition meant that even rural people had a choice of private subscriptions, and taverns, inns, and coffee houses regularly subscribed to a host of newspapers”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“The American and British governments invested heavily in the press, supporting official and unofficial organs, and high-ranking members routinely wrote articles and employed mercenary writers.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“American-born families flowing into Upper Canada first as political refugees from the American Revolution and later as economic migrants.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“The wars in Europe engulfed much of the world, precipitating and facilitating innumerable local conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the Haitian Revolution,”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and Britain’s impressment of sailors from American ships—were redundant following France’s defeat in the spring of 1814. Britain’s last-minute suspension”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

“After all, the two issues on which the United States formally declared war—America’s trade rights as a neutral in the ongoing European wars and Britain’s impressment of sailors from American ships—were redundant following France’s defeat in the spring of 1814.”
― Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812