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Ferdinand Pettrich’s “The Dying Tecumseh” portrays the Shawnee warrior’s death during the War of 1812 in a fictional manner. The statue was housed in the US Capitol from 1864 to 1878, and ...
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, one of whose epic battles inspired the United States national anthem. Although war—which featured the U.S. invasion of Ontario and the ...
OLIVIA HEWITT FOR THE HOYA Panelists discussed the War of 1812’s effect on Georgetown at an event Tuesday evening. In honor of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Georgetown University Library ...
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 ...
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 t… ...