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.

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

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

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 ...

Each time China sends its warplanes and navy vessels to encircle Taiwan in alarming war games, the world is ... Shoal - and deploying coast guard ships and naval vessels to patrol the contested ...

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

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 ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the decades-long Vietnam War. Images of overloaded ... evacuees were transported from land to U.S. Navy ships 40 miles away in the South ...

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 ...