ABSTRACT
The conflict known in the United States as the War of 1812 involved not only soldiers and sailors but also a “Home Front” of civilian advocates and critics. An analogous “Home Front” in Great Britain had begun two decades earlier. It was in 1793 that the French were first pitted militarily against the British (as well as their intermittent allies). By 1812 most Britons had experienced an unprecedented degree of “national mobilization.” The years of 1812 to 1815 therefore meant only a chapter of the book that encompassed the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
