On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia ...

Skipping the innumerable details of Russian and French warfare at the time, we’ll stick to the core events of the war. Roughly by June 24, 1812, when the Great Army invaded the Russian Empire by ...

The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President ...

After years of the British Army being hollowed out and underfunded, war in Europe has refocused minds on the need to prepare for war to achieve peace. To do that requires serious investment, and ...

The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it in his first State of the Union to Congress in December 1817.

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

The president celebrates the 250th anniversary of the US Army as demonstrators hold "No Kings" events from coast to coast.

A nearly 200-year-old missing-person case has been solved by the Niagara County historian’s office. Historian Catherine L. Emerson told the County Legislature this week that she and her staff have ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Preparations are underway in Northern New York for the annual Battle of Plattsburgh commemoration.

Visitors to the Maidstone Bicentennial Museum on the weekend stepped back in time to 1812, when voyageurs cleaned deer skins while Indigenous warriors and British solders fended off American invaders.

An official celebration of a major update to River Raisin National Battlefield Park takes place this weekend in Monroe.