American warships fought the British on the Great Lakes, and American troops fought to come says Indians at america’s western borders in the Atlantic American ships struggled to resist the world’s greatest Navy. Many British victories turned into invasions along the Atlantic coast the most famous humiliation up a war was the burning of Washington. British forces who had fought into Chesapeake Bay and marched on the Capitol, proceeded to vandalize great symbols American pride. They set ablaze not only the US Treasury Building and the capital, but the White House itself Amazingly it was not American troops .But american weather that a bench this disgrace less than 24 hours after the Redcoats marched on the Washington. A tornado and a hurricane drove them back to their ships killing British and American troops like and putting out most of the firest in the south. The most famous battle of the war was fought two weeks after the peace treaty was signed. News of Treaty of Ghent had not yet reached the new world when the British landed on the southern coastal Louisiana. Intent on seizing the city of New Orleans. When General Andrew Jackson saw the enemy and capped just outside the city he said by the eternal. They shall not sleep on our soil. For battle the Mormons was a route Jackson's forces crush the British and inflicted casualties of 22.1%. The war had been fought for status and the spoils of the war was status alone.