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 ...

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 ...

The society is grateful to the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Maryland for its work on identifying the grave site and obtaining the headstone, he said. About 1,500 Black soldiers ...

It’s happened, of course, but imagine a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War fighting in the Civil War. That’s a span of more than 50 years, much longer than the 24 years that ...

Kira Rudik’s perspective on the war in Ukraine is reminiscent of the War of 1812 (“Ukraine Renews ... its refusal to accept the new reality by impressing American seamen into service for ...

On June 4, 1812, the House of Representatives voted 79 to 49 to declare war against Great Britain. In the next two weeks, the U.S. Senate debated the House's bill and on June 17, by a vote of 19 ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning Frenchtown’s depot, they were repelled at Elkton. Dr. Julie Shively, Command ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed is one of our nation’s greatest moments of resilience. The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in ...

Pictured is the mouth of Canadaway Creek in Dunkirk where hostile exchanges with the British occurred during the War of 1812. Submitted photo The War of 1812, sometimes known as America’s second war ...

The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply significant event in North American and world history. The war shaped American, Canadian and British destiny in the most literal way possible ...

Samuel Neale lies in rest just down the street from where he lived for decades, a longtime resident of Frederick and Black veteran of the War of 1812. Neale was honored Saturday with the ...