In the wildly popular Youtube chanel Crash Course, the narrator states that the War of 1812 bears that title only because of the historians' "great imagination" and mentions three humorous names that could very well describe the War of 1812.
This got me to thinking: did the War of 1812 ever have a (relatively) commonly-used name other than or more descriptive than "War of 1812"?
Please include reliable sources in your answer.
