1812 The War of 1812: A 12-year-old John Brown travels through the Michigan wilderness to deliver a herd of cattle. He lodged with a man who owned a boy slave. Brown was treated well, but the ...

It stands as one of the deadliest assaults on U.S. soil. "Since the War of 1812, no foreign power had carried out so devastating an attack on American soil, and virtually all Americans reacted to ...

Was Brockton named for an enemy general? Yes. And no. Consider the timeline. The British commander Sir Isaac Brock took a U.S. sniper's bullet to the heart turning back a U.S. invasion of Canada ...