Napoleon Bonaparte transformed Europe through a series of bold military campaigns and strategic conquests that expanded the ...

By June 1812, the U.S. has had ... experienced British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. The U.S. Senate — meeting in temporary quarters in Washington — ratifies the Treaty of Ghent.

The British then marched into Washington ... the feel-good side of the War of 1812,” says Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry’s chief interpreter. “We won the battle here, we don’t hate the British ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed ... and near the Canadian border − including the Battle of York (now Toronto), where Americans plundered ...

The United States had declared war on Great Britain back in June 1812, a few decades after winning ... British forces burned Washington, D.C. in August 1814, then attempted to capture Baltimore ...

In September 1814 on the waters of Lake Champlain, American sailors won an improbable victory that not only turned back the largest British invasion force of the War of 1812 but also helped secure ...