When the War of 1812 began ... as the “Hero of Fort Stephenson, “earning another battlefield promotion to Lt. Colonel. Back in Louisville, his famous uncle, George Rogers Clark, declared ...

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 ...

Fort McHenry is hallowed ground in United States history. It is of course best known as the scene of a siege during the War of 1812, a siege witnessed by a Washington lawyer called Francis Scott Key, ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...