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This story originally appeared in the July 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. The War of 1812 is often overlooked, especially ...
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10th Mountain Division explores War of 1812 battle, with focus on military leadership, battlefield tactics By Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs September 20, 2023 ...
OLIVIA HEWITT FOR THE HOYA Panelists discussed the War of 1812’s effect on Georgetown at an event Tuesday evening. In honor of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Georgetown University Library ...
The War of 1812, much of which played out along the Niagara Frontier, was a U.S. reaction to the British seizure of U.S. ships trading with France during the Napoleonic war.
British officer William Phillips Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By then, the story had grown to include Rebel’s son, who carried his father’s name and, like the older canine, was an army dog.
When the American brig USS Enterprise defeated the HMS Boxer in a quick, bloody battle off Pemaquid Point during the War of 1812, the British captain was killed and his American counterpart was ...
The largest battery of 1812-period artillery ever assembled will “bombard” Canada in a nighttime cannonade commemorating the Oct. 13, 1812, Battle of Queenston Heights – one of the earliest ...