"Boney Was a Warrior"

The 'popularity' of the Napoleon theme for songs seem to me, to be based partly on disaffection with the changing society (this was the era of the Industrial Revolution and Ludditism in Britain), Irish disaffection, and post war low level 'passive rebellion' in the era of 'Peterloo' from the dis-enfranchised.


Wildlone,

"...Buckingham palace was never burned..."
But York (Toronto) was - hence the burning of Washington.

More importantly, The US invaded Canada ...and were repulsed.
The conditions of the peace treaty were Status ante bellum - or no change from the situation before the war.
The American claim sems to be based on the fact that the Royal Navy never pressed American seamen into service again, but that was probably due to the fact that, by the time the American ar was over, the (more important) European war was also over and there was no need for additional sailors.

Walrus