For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812 ... matter of general war-weariness. British families ...

“This is the feel-good side of the War of 1812,” says Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry’s chief interpreter. “We won the battle here, we don’t hate the British anymore, and the flag and national ...

Give a bit of an edge in number to the boys in scarlet, the veteran professional soldiers commanded by Major General ... Americans lost battle after battle in the 1812 war to British-Canadian ...

The United States had declared war on Great Britain back in June 1812, a few decades ... prostrate bodies.” The British ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any ... On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors ...

He led the first battle in which Ulysses S ... As a commander, he fought the British in the War of 1812, and Native Americans in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the second Seminole War in Florida ...

this battle never should have taken place. The War of 1812 ended two weeks before British and American troops stormed the field, but word had not yet reached Congress, the British general or ...