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Its latest exhibit, “Full Steam Ahead: The Golden Age of Great Lakes Passenger Steamships ... and destroyed by the British during the War of 1812. In the early 2000s, the museum commissioned ...
The War of 1812 is one of our forgotten wars, skimmed over in school lessons and rarely the subject of movies. To the British ...
For the Americans, it was the lowest point of what would become known as the War of 1812. The young United States of America finds itself caught up in a war between Great Britain and France.
This month marks the 200th anniversary of a remarkable series of seldom-remembered events in the War of 1812 that changed ... in shaping Canada west of the Great Lakes has largely been overlooked ...
Experts estimate that more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Over the course of three decades, Brendon Baillod, a maritime historian from the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology ...
The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812 capped off years of tensions, in part over seizures of American ships and sailors as Britain fought a string of wars with France.