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==History== American supporters of the war against the British argued that the [[War of 1812]] was a defensive war, citing British harassment of American merchant shipping and [[impressment]] of American sailors on the [[international water|high seas]] as well as armed support to Indian tribes resisting American expansion in the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] in order to create a pro-British [[Indian barrier state]].<ref name="Bickham2012">{{cite book|author=Troy Bickham|title=The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QM755oY5k98C&pg=PT95|date=1 June 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-994262-6|pages=95β}}</ref>{{Sfn|Stagg, Madison's War|page=4}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America |url=https://archive.org/details/turningpointsact00carl_912 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2007 |isbn=9781851098330 |editor-last=Carlisle |editor-first=Rodney P. |page=[https://archive.org/details/turningpointsact00carl_912/page/n64 44] |ref={{SfnRef|Carlisle and Golson}} |editor-last2=Golson |editor-first2=J. Geoffrey}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pratt |first=Julius W. |title=Expansionists of 1812 |date=1925}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Heidler |first1=David |title=The War of 1812 |last2=Heidler |first2=Jeanne T. |page=4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tucker |first=Spencer |title=The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 |page=236}}</ref>
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