WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 2, 2014) -- The burning of federal buildings in the nation's capital 200 years ago this week was a psychological victory for the British, but little else ...

David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

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. Instead, the last battle of ...

Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British ... they were shot into oblivion by Jackson’s ragtag army. The British suffered about 2,000 casualties, while the ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco ... CBS release statements after now-viral interview New US Army Helicopter Could Fly Twice As Fast ...

On June 18, 1812 ... believed to be British-born citizens. This practice caused much American anger and resentment toward Great Britain. The two nations nearly went to war in 1807 when the ...

The Continental Army, led by then-Gen. George Washington, faced a far better-equipped British military but ultimately prevailed with the help of key allies, most notably France. The War of 1812 ...

Pictured is the mouth of Canadaway Creek in Dunkirk where hostile exchanges with the British occurred during the War of 1812. Submitted photo The War of 1812, sometimes known as America’s second war ...

A Black War ... 1812 and 1814. Joseph Giles — like Neale himself — was one of the roughly 4,000 members of the Maryland militia who teamed up to surprise and scatter the mighty British Army ...