The financial establishment of the US was heavily connected to England especially through marriages. Most of these people were merchants. The real money to be made however was in smuggling. For example the Rothschild's English branch made their money smuggling shit into England. So too was there heavily smuggling in the colonies and the US.

The financial establishment was smuggling arms to both england and france to make the maximum amount of profit, but at the same time many sailors were getting captured by the British and conscripted. Some of these sailors were actually british smugglers under the employ of the US establishment which gave them "citizenship papers".

While the establishment was fine with these people getting fucked over as long as they made money, the Virginia dynasty considered it an insult for the British to kidnap American citizens. It also didn't like how much new england relied on smuggling to their adversaries they had just won a revolution with so they tariffed them.

What this didn't do however was stop smuggling, it increased tenfold. Actually new England's financial support of England was a huge boon to them in the Napoleonic wars and they directly resupplied the biritsh navy off the coast of canada. Sometimes british naval ships would drop anchor off the coast of new england to be resupplied by them.

This was basically treason and new england knew it and signed secret deals with england to be spared in the event of a mounting invasion attempt.

See new england was pissed at the viriginia dynasty which they considered uncouth and backwards, incapable of understanding their cultural and economic superiority.

This betrayal of the US in secret is probably what gave england the idea to attack, and during the war new england was noticably absent from any sort of effort to fend off the briitsh. So much so the briutish made it all the way down to virginia to burn the white house.

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