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Quote Originally Posted by adembroski View Post
What I remember of school coverage on the War of 1812 was it was basically a wash. I'm pretty sure it's taught accurately, if lacking detail.
Ditto that. I was taught that the war was pretty much a draw. We beat back the British, while our invasion of Canada was a miserable/laughable failure.



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Going by the screenshots and trailers/movies, it appears that officers will wield swords/sabers and possibly pistols as well. I don't know how accurate that would be for the time period, although I know it was like that half a century later in the American Civil War.