A nearly 200-year-old missing-person case has been solved by the Niagara County historian’s office. Historian Catherine L. Emerson told the County Legislature this week that she and her staff have ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Maidstone Bicentennial Museum on the weekend stepped back in time to 1812, when voyageurs cleaned deer skins while Indigenous warriors and British solders fended off American invaders.

He was serving in this capacity when the War of 1812 erupted. Roe wanted to join the militia to fight the invaders, but Selby forbade it. He needed the young man at his side. On April 27, 1813, ...

Toy Soldiers, a monument to the War of 1812 in Toronto, depicts a soldier successfully defending Canada from U.S. invasion, overlaid here atop a vintage map. Foreign Policy illustration/Getty photos ...

In the War of 1812, militia units shielded our fledgling republic. During the Civil War, they fought to mend a broken Union and redefine who we were destined to be as a nation.

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating … ...

Richard Pierpoint petitioned to form an all-black militia to fight alongside the British during the War of 1812. His initiative eventually led to the formation of what was known as the “Coloured Corps ...

Adding to the tug-of-war is the mystery of exactly how many people are buried in the cemetery and precisely where their graves — especially those of the aforementioned war veterans — are located.