The war of 1812 may seem like it happened a long time ago. But in Whitehall, New York, residents have a daily reminder: the Ticonderoga. For the... Mar 14, 2013 — The war of 1812 may seem like ...

“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 ...

The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars ... especially once imperial Germany resolved to construct a battleship ...

The armed vessel defeated five British warships in the War of 1812, and it was in the wake ... and clear-cut the whole forest to build a new battleship.” Maintenance of a 225-year-old, 304 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...