In essence, your view is supported by the following excerpt fro

But out of the British blockade of France and similar war measures came a war between Great Britain and the United States, the war of 1812.

That war seemed to Americans to offer a new opportunity to liberate Canada and add it to the United States. To Canadians it was a war of defense against invasion and, if possible, to recover the lost lands of the west. The war ended in stalemate.