and nearly gets blown off the map, but rallies in the end to squeak out a moral victory. The war, which was declared on June 18, 1812, featured some of the most dramatic episodes in the nation’s ...

The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply ... had one or two battles or decisions gone a different way, a map of the United States today would look entirely (and shockingly) different.

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 ...

It’s happened, of course, but imagine a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War fighting in the Civil War. That’s a span of more than 50 years, much longer than the 24 years that ...

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