So they are doing a whole series of things that was really kind of antagonizing the United States.

War and weather are very closely connected.

I came here to raise bail for my father... ...who was sent to prison.

In 1812, the United States declares war on Great Britain.

And it's shockingly not a new idea.

Now it got all this region over here in 1803.

Much of this revolution can be traced to four men who met at Cambridge University in 1812

Just don't do any trade with Great Britain, we're going to be good buddies.

Another fantastic case of creating intangible value to replace actual or material value, which remember, is what, after all, the environmental movement needs to be about

And would tell me a little bit about history too, when he'd play the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky on this little Victrola, and he would tell me about Russia and all the things that were happening in Russia at those times and why this music, in some way, represented a little bit of that history.

Eventually, he just keeps chasing them, keeps chasing them, until we get to September 7, 1812.

You're in a historic room, ladies and gentlemen, from the walls of which the heroes of another people's war, the war of 1812, are looking at us.

But Napoleon, he just says no, look if they're going to double cross me like that, I'm just going to go full tilt and show them who's boss.

Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.