After the war, Jackson moved to Tennessee and conducted a political career, but by 1812, he was back in the military. Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British, but ...

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

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been ... — was one of the roughly 4,000 members of the Maryland militia who teamed up to surprise and scatter the mighty British Army at the Battle of ...

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 ...

On Aug. 24, 1814 — 210 years ago Saturday — the British marched into Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, the White House and most other government facilities in our capital city ...

The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812 capped off years of tensions, ... In August 1814, the British brought the war to Washington, D.C., which had barely 8,000 residents.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPT. 7, 1813, UNCLE SAM BECOME SYMBOL OF NATION DURING WAR OF 1812. Tecumseh and the British had seized the American fort in Detroit a year earlier, in the early days of ...

The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on The role of Billy Flora, of Portsmouth, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of progress ...

Reconnaissance walks during War of 1812 Daniel Dobbins and Commodore Jesse Elliott walked across the lake in the winter of 1813-14, according to Dobbins' recollections in a letter to Elliott ...