On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning ...

Royal Navy ships near the American coastline were ... had taken place during the previous two years. For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence.

Others are construction ships used to build structures at sea, such as oil platforms and wind turbines. And as we've already seen, the needs of war can lead to shapes never seen before on the ...

In the early morning hours of May 10, 1775, New York officially entered the American Revolution when the leader of a ragtag ...

Yet the War of 1812 still struggles for notice ... sailors on American ships for service in the Royal Navy. To President James Madison and “War Hawks” in Congress, these acts violated U.S ...

General Dwight Eisenhower wrote a cable informing his superiors, “the mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, May ...

The ACLU initially filed suit in the nation’s capital to block deportations. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued a ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t ...

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 ... old ships chained together — to ...

Some 7,000 South Vietnamese and Americans would make their way onto US Navy ships on April 29 and 30 in ... of US military involvement in the Vietnam War had officially ended with the signing ...