books.google.ca - In the second and final war of independence, Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent. Before the outcome is decided, the war will have engulfed land and sea, with a disastrous U.S. defeat...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Union_1812.html?id=ywM56b9z49sC&q=Getty+Images&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareUnion 1812