The American Revolution Continues

Despite the 1783 peace treaty ending the American Revolutionary War, a cold war persisted between the United States and the British empire. British officials regretted the treaty's new boundary through the Great Lakes as too generous to the United States and detrimental to Canadian security. They longed to shift that flawed boundary southward, and to prevent the Americans from pushing northward to swallow Canada, driving the British from North America. In violation of the peace treaty, the British clung to frontier forts on the American side of the new border, and they supplied weapons and advice to Indian nations resisting the American expansion in the Ohio Valley.

--Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (New York: Vintage Books, 2011), 15.