The document summarizes the key causes and events of the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain. The war was sparked by British interference with American shipping and support of Native American resistance to American expansion. While the US launched unsuccessful invasions of Canada, they gained control of the Great Lakes with a naval victory. Later, the British invaded Washington D.C. and burned public buildings, but their invasion of New York was stopped. The war ended in a stalemate with the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, though Andrew Jackson later defeated a British force at New Orleans in 1815.