How it affected the United States ?

The causes the war of 1812 are still debated to this day but it is believed to have been triggered by a series of incidents in the early 19th century involving British interference in American trade, particularly the impressment of American sailors into the British navy and the meddling of the British. The united states has hurt in many costly defeats in the hands of the British, the Canadian and Native American troops over the way of the war of 1812, including the capture and burning of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., in August 1814.