David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

But ignorance of the War of 1812 lightens ... the first U.S. Army to march into Canada was so badly led that it promptly retreated and then surrendered, ceding Michigan to the British.

MDOT announced its roadside parks are reopening soon. Here's when they reopen, and six you should visit even if you don't need a break from driving.

At the outbreak of hostilities, the U.S. Army was a ... are coming! The War of 1812 produced its own Paul Revere, except this folk hero was a woman who served the British. On the evening of ...

It is unlikely that armies have fared any better throughout history without proper sanitation and waste management. Consider, ...

The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early 19th century.

At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...

the American Revolutionary War and the war of 1812—after the British stopped Americans accessing lucrative foreign markets. Palen also cited the tariff war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia as ...

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The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero ... free of British presence for six years, in 1781, we would not have had an army to march south ...

Bush in the Iraq War. Like the IWM, the many other museums dedicated to the British Armed Forces – the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum in Hendon (north London), the British Army Museum in Chelsea ...