MONTGOMERY -- The last battle of the War of 1812 wasn't the Battle of New Orleans, at which U.S. troops led by Andrew Jackson defeated British troops on Jan. 8, 1815.

General William Henry Harrison led Americans to victory in the Battle of the Thames on this day in history, Oct. 5, 1813, routing the British and Native forces led by Shawnee chief Tecumseh.

In May of 1814, General George Drummond led the British in capturing New York's Fort Oswego. This was the calm before a three-pronged British invasion. Painted in watercolor by Steele in 1814.

For a brief shining moment in 1814, Ross was the toast of the British Empire. The general, who had served with distinction under the Duke of Wellington in the war with Napoleon, had been sent to ...

It kept Major General Phineas Riall believing that a little pressure would crack his American opponents. He would gamble upon it and lose. After the battle, the New York Iroquois mopped up in the ...

A Baltimore artist took the Battle of North Point from the War of 1812 and put it on canvas, figuring out how to get it in front of hundreds of school kids every day.

British forces burned Washington, D.C. in August 1814, then attempted to capture Baltimore, losing at Fort McHenry. Now, much farther south, the Royal Navy was closing in on New Orleans.

The U.S. found glory at the Battle of New Orleans, while six months later the British found theirs when the Duke of Wellington inflicted a crushing defeat over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

Turning the Course of the War . The Battle of Plattsburgh and the Battle of Lake Champlain on September 11, 1814 salvaged two years of dismal military losses for the United States, staving off the ...