The Fight for a Free Sea

"The War of 1812, like the American Revolution, was a valiant contest for survival on the part of the spirit of freedom. It was in this renewed defiance of England that the dream of the founders of the Republic and the ideals of the embattled farmers of Bunker Hill and Saratoga achieved their goal. Henceforth the world was to respect these States, not as so many colonies bitterly wrangling among themselves, but as a sovereign and independent nation."