The War of 1812 was a conflict between two very different naval powers, a pattern that is far more common in naval history than tends to be appreciated. Aside from a fundamental contrast in their ...

FLOTILLA: THE PATUXENT NAVAL CAMPAIGN IN THE WAR OF 1812 By Donald G. Shomette Johns Hopkins University Press, $38, 357 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY ROBERT F. DUNN As the 200th anniversary of the War ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elliott was second in command to Oliver Hazard Perry during the battle and afterward succeeded him as commander of the American naval squadron at Erie. "The exertions made at that time for the ...

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.