The primitive seven-barrel machine gun dates to the War of 1812 and was prized by U.S. naval commanders, who hoped to position such weapons in ships’ rigging to strafe opponents’ decks and ...

This frigate famously battled a Royal Navy ship during the War of 1812 and is still commissioned in the 21st century. By Chris Capelluto Updated on Nov 21, 2020 In this episode of Task & History ...

The museum also upends the blurry, rather blithe notions that visitors have about the War of 1812 as a whole. While Americans may dimly recall Key, the naval heroics of “Old Ironsides,” or ...

But the British offensive stalled outside Baltimore, where a small American garrison at Fort McHenry withstood a 25-hour naval bombardment ... are coming! The War of 1812 produced its own ...

a powerful show of force on the global stage of the naval power of the young nation. "The Constitution went on to defeat or capture seven more British ships in the War of 1812." Old Ironsides is ...

The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars. Seldom does a society mistake defeat for victory and codify the loser ...

On June 1, 1812, President James Madison sent the ... building additional fighting ships and increasing naval funding. As the war progressed, all of Virginia's Republicans generally supported ...

Letters of marque and reprisal were once common tools for countries with small naval forces to augment ... including the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Over the course of the 19th century ...

In 1882, Roosevelt published “The Naval War of 1812,” the book that brought him to prominence. In the acknowledgments, Roosevelt thanked Bulloch for his “advice and sympathy.” The future ...

Not only did he have boarding parties ready, he had a film crew standing by to capture the moment: the moment when the U.S. Navy captured its first enemy warship at sea since the War of 1812.

The ship earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the War of 1812 when British cannonballs ... awareness of the importance of a sustained naval presence.