Visitors covered their ears in anticipation of the loud sound of the cannon fired Sunday during the Old Fort’s reenactment of the siege of Fort Wayne during the War of 1812. The Old Fort ...

These inglorious episodes are little heralded today, apart from Dolley Madison’s rescue of George Washington ... good side of the War of 1812,” says Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry’s chief ...

The Army’s 250th birthday is June 14, 2025, and since 1775 the Army's motto is “This We’ll Defend”. For 250 years, Army ...

Maj. George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry, had requested that a giant flag be made to fly over the fort a year earlier, with the War of 1812 well underway and certain at some point he would ...

Brian M. Linn, “‘The American Way of War’ Revisited,” Journal of Military History 66, no. 2 (April 2002): 501–33. 2. For a more detailed definition and analysis of the concept of a “way of warfare,” ...

Built in the 1820s as a coastal defense system, Fort Jackson was designed to repel a foreign invasion like the country had suffered in the War of 1812. History had other ideas. Fort Jackson was ...

For the Americans, it was the lowest point of what would become known as the War of 1812. The young United States ... the Constitution and George Washington’s letters into a makeshift linen ...

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional ... Sheads as part of a bicentennial celebration of the Battle of Fort McHenry, the story spotlighted Neale’s rarity as a Black ...