Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in ...
He was referring to Aug. 22, 1814, the infamous day during the War of 1812 when British troops tried to break America's will to fight by capturing Washington and burning the White House ...
Author Eric Dolin provided opening remarks for his lecture about a fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago ...
The Treaty of Ghent not only ended The War of 1812, but it helped lead to future agreements reducing the risk of more conflict. The Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817 disarmed British and American ...