Texas residents chose to scatter their ashes at the Alamo, Washington-on-the-Brazos, San Jacinto Battlefield & Monument, and Fort Mackinac, while other notable monuments across the country included ...

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History announced last week that Richard Loveland has been hired as its new executive director. Loveland is no stranger to the world of non-profit organizations, ...

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President Donald Trump 's lawyers referenced the War of 1812 in legal documents related to California Governor Gavin Newsom 's National Guard case. Writing in a response to a U.S. district court ...

The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law – beginning the War of 1812. The ...

The Battle of Stoney Creek happened on June 6, 1813, midway through the War of 1812. The British had lost Fort George and Niagara-on-the-Lake, and retreated to Burlington Heights, now Dundurn ...

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 threat of losing the War of 1812.

In the year 1615 the famous explorer Samuel de Champlain made a journey from Georgian Bay through Lake Simcoe, Rice Like and along the Trent River and recorded seeing evidence of former native ...

Home History Features When the U.S. invaded Canada President Trump has talked of annexing our northern neighbor. We tried to do just that in the War of 1812.

The site is said to contain over 30 layers of various settlements, dating back from the Copper Age to World War I. Tel Megiddo was the location where Josiah, the king of Judah, famously fought the ...

But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the frozen lake in the winter of 1813-14.