This year marks the bicentennial of the start of the War of 1812. Numerous commissions have been established to commemorate the conflict. The U.S. Navy has even set up a Bicentennial Network ...

In Massachusetts, and especially its District of Maine, the War of 1812 was “a disorderly discourse,” writes Smith. Its politics “devolved into arguments, lawsuits, riots, fistfights ...

During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.

The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars. Seldom does a society mistake defeat for victory and codify the loser strategy as the playbook for future conflicts.

A British View of the Naval War of 1812 . August 23, 2012 3:59 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 8:30 PM.

After years of wrangling over trade and sovereignty issues, the United States declared war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on June 18, 1812. A significant factor driving the U.S ...

Naval History Magazine, August 2008 The War of 1812 was a conflict between two very different naval powers, a pattern ...

OTTAWA -- The War of 1812 may be one of the world's oddest conflicts, if only because both sides are confident they won. A new survey suggests Canadians and Americans have vastly divergent ...

In 1882, Roosevelt published “The Naval War of 1812,” the book that brought him to prominence. In the acknowledgments, Roosevelt thanked Bulloch for his “advice and sympathy.” ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of t… ...

Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.