war hawk

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | 663 words | Copyright

war hawk
1. a person who supports the initiation or continuance of a war.

2. War Hawk a term used to describe members of the Twelfth Congress (1811–13) who supported war with Britain and whose bellicose attitudes contributed to the conflict. Chief among them were Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, and most of them came from the west and the north, areas near the frontier that would benefit from a British defeat. Northerners hoped that the British would be forced from Canada and that the Native Americans would be more quiescent with the departure of their allies, while the westerners hoped to wrest Florida from Spain, an ally of Britain's at the time.

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