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World War I produced one of the most memorable images in American history: the U.S. Army recruiting poster that depicts ... he sold to the Army in the War of 1812. Giddyap! By the mid-19th century ...
Gardner says that's because the War of 1812 left an indelible mark on this state — specifically, on its map. The 1814 Treaty of Ghent and subsequent U.S.-British compacts ceded control of the ...
To mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Ohio Historical Society's ... We have three diaries and a map noting the routes of three different soldiers from eastern Ohio and from northern ...
The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply ... had one or two battles or decisions gone a different way, a map of the United States today would look entirely (and shockingly) different.
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 ...
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 ...