Now this might seem like a fairly obvious answer, but I was wondering just how hostile the relations between the British and Americans were during the war. Was there deep sentimental hate for each other, or was there a sort of understanding that we were going to war for our differences, but we do not absolutely hate each other. I am curious because in America, I was taught that relations were not so bad, and there was much reluctance to actually go to war because of this. Yet, I have heard otherwise, in other sources