3rd Edition
Challenge to the New Republic: The War of 1812 explores America's foreign policy between 1787 and 1812. During this time the United States faced a series of foreign policy challenges that threatened its survival as an independent, constitutional republic. Between 1793 and 1815, a nearly continuous series of wars pitting the French against the British engulfed the European continent. Other nations joined the conflict when they could not avoid it or deemed it beneficial to do so. The resulting disruption that the United States faced to its ocean-going trade and on its frontiers became the dominant foreign policy issues during the early years of the American Republic. More Details.