“Bang,” one of the men says. After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S ...

Mikasa was a battleship built in the 1890s for a freshly ... Perhaps best known as “Old Ironsides,” she became famous during the War of 1812 where she fought against Britain and defeated ...

Jim Twohig of Sun City built his first model ship — a replica of the flagship used by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to win the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812 — so well that the ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of ...

The society is grateful to the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Maryland for its work on identifying the grave site and obtaining the headstone, he said. About 1,500 Black soldiers ...

His is a story much like that of the hundreds of others buried here in a forgotten cemetery for those who died during the War of 1812. Sources tell us that the statistics above were for the ...

Pictured is the mouth of Canadaway Creek in Dunkirk where hostile exchanges with the British occurred during the War of 1812. Submitted photo The War of 1812, sometimes known as America’s second war ...

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional military honor due to protocols dating to the slavery era will be memorialized in a Frederick cemetery this weekend, though not by the ...

FALL RIVER — History is a living thing in Fall River, where the waterfront is home to the world’s largest collection of naval vessels that saw action in war. Battleship Cove is a Fall River ...

Samuel Neale lies in rest just down the street from where he lived for decades, a longtime resident of Frederick and Black veteran of the War of 1812. Neale was honored Saturday with the ...