When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England.

They stood together Wednesday behind the podium at the Buffalo History Museum, military interpreters entering their third year of celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812. Already, Guy ...

Reconnaissance walks during War of 1812 Daniel Dobbins and Commodore Jesse Elliott walked across the lake in the winter of 1813-14, according to Dobbins' recollections in a letter to Elliott ...

RENSSELAER — Three veterans of the War of 1812 — all privates in separate military units — made Jasper County their home once the war ended in 1815.