by CrazyCatman on Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:32 pm
The Civil War should be considered a win. The Confederates broke away from The Union, so technically the Union was the one that this applies to. If the Confederates had won, well, history would probably have been vastly different.
As far as Korea goes, I'm not sure where to put it. The Korean War is still going on and the U.S. still has troops in South Korea, so......
The War of 1812 is technically a loss since the objective of the U.S. was to take parts of Canada, and England's objective was not to lose it. History shows that the English were successful in their objective where as the U.S. was not. Thus, by definition, we must count this as a loss (though it was a victory to the American's morale because they had fought one of the great military powers of the world and managed to survive).
I would say that the Quasi-War was a victory, the First and Second Barbary Wars would also go down as victories, The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795) was decisively a victory, Bosnia and Kosovo are up in the air.