There are about 798,000 War of 1812 commemorative plates in circulation. The plates were standard-issue from 2010 until September 2016, when the current plates featuring the Maryland flag were ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning Frenchtown’s depot, they were repelled at Elkton. Dr. Julie Shively, Command ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of ...

The ultimate result was “that other war,” which has so long shadowed 1812. It looms even at Fort McHenry, where Maryland legislators were sequestered in 1861 so they couldn’t vote for secession.

Saturday's event was the culmination of three years of work, said Louis Giles, president of The Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Maryland. One of the society's missions is to find and ...

ISBN: 9780801892356 A volume in a continuing Johns Hopkins series on the Second War with Britain, The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake is essentially ... of some important during the war in Virginia, ...

By June 1812, the U.S. has had enough. It declares war against Great Britain ... Aug. 19, 1814 British troops land in Maryland and begin to march toward Washington. A feint to the Northeast ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed ... landing more than 4,000 British troops in southern Maryland, the British routed American volunteers ...

The War of 1812, which lasted until 1815, once again pitted the United States against Great Britain. The conflict was driven by maritime disputes, including the British practice of impressment ...

Samuel A. Neale served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812. Samuel A. Neale, a Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812, was posthumously ...