The United States of America

## Summary

**The United States**, Officially the **United States of America**, or America is a Country in North America established in 1779.

## Pre Civil War History

The American state burst onto the world stage amid fiery revolution, setting precedent for others to do the same. The young nation saw peaceful growth until the war of 1812. In 1790, the Republic of Vermont, and New England, was incorporated as a colony by Britain, much to the bemusement of the Americans.

### War of 1812

The war of 1812 is arguably the nations first war, discounting its revolution. The war lasted only 2 years, though saw some fiercest conflict in the continent since the American Revolution. Despite the bloody fighting, the war resulted in a stalemate, and ended in 1814 after both sides losses were mounting.

### War of New England

Peace between America and England seemed to be impossible with the Beginning of the Vermont War in 1831. This conflict saw the Union, now aged and heartened, declare war on Britain for control of Vermont, an ever-contentious topic in North America. The war saw American forces, alongside Militias from Vermont, strike into New Brunswick and take control of Vermont and New England. The Canadians and British forces advanced through the Ontario peninsula into Michigan, were a stalemate, eerily similar to that of 1812, ensued.

The Americans occupied New England, while the British held their ground in Canada. In 1833 A British attack from Nova Scotia and Upper Canada retook New Brunswick, before another stalemate set in. By 1834 both sides had tired of the war. The Treaty of Fredericton, signed on March 4th, 1834 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a city that had been placed under siege three times over the war's course. The Treaty guaranteed the independence of New England as an American Protectorate, and the redrawing of the borders of New Brunswick to include a small portion of Northern New England.

## Post Civil War History

After the Civil War the United States was left crippled and divided, though with through the war the Americans realised the potential of their industrial capacity. The rapid American industrialization of the nineteenth century results saw the expansion of many new cities and the growth of the American Army and Navy.

### Pacific Wars and Military History

American forces were significantly tested during the Pacific Wars. Beginning with the Spanish American war in 1890 and ending with the conclusion of the Polynesian-American war in 1913. The Spanish American war saw the Americans capturing the Philippines, Cuba, many Caribbean islands, as well as the incorporation of Hawaii. The wars ended in 1891.

In 1906-07 the Great White Fleet was established. The fleet toured the world from 1906-07, and ended up in the Pacific Ocean patrolling Hawaii. From 1907-1910 the Fleet was reinforced by shipyards in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1910 Polynesian Forces launched an amphibious invasion of American Hawaii. The Great White Fleet and American troops stationed in Hawaii managed to repel the Polynesian forces. The American Navy also crushed two Polynesian Armada's at the Battle of South Anahera and the Battle of Ohou. By the wars end in 1913 the Americans had captured the northern Hawaii Islands, part of Camerhari and the Former British Colonies of Aleu and Ohou.

The American Navy, Army and Air Force continued to grow throughout the twentieth century until the Great War.