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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One year earlier, at a constitutional convention in Ohio, a fur trapper told state delegates that the maps being used ... the boundary in 1812, but it was delayed by the War of 1812.