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The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President ...

Royal Navy ships near the American coastline were ordered ... place during the previous two years. For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence.

The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812 capped off years of tensions, in part over seizures of American ships and sailors as Britain fought a string of wars with France.

Not only did he have boarding parties ready, he had a film crew standing by to capture the moment: the moment when the U.S. Navy captured its first enemy warship at sea since the War of 1812.

Neale, a Hagerstown man whose name can be found on the muster rolls of a regiment that fought in two major battles in the War of 1812, was an American soldier in good standing and thus had the ...

From the nation's founding to its modern military operations overseas, hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have died in war ... of American sailors into the Royal Navy, and trade restrictions ...

At this time, 211 years ago, our area was on the frontlines of the United States’ second conflict with Great Britain, which would come to be known as the War of 1812. The majority of the ...

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional ... during the conflict sometimes referred to as the Second American War for Independence from Britain. Neale has long been denied ...