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 ...

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is ditching almost 400 books from its library ... aviators in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Meanwhile, the Naval Academy's library scrub ...

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 ...

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

the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Among those removed were books and materials discussing women who served during the Civil War, website discussions ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Often celebrated for their historical authenticity and verisimilitude, O’Brian’s books invented ... from the War of 1812 to an earlier period of Britain’s frequent bouts of naval warfare ...