After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ... Some states withheld their militia.

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it—the ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

Historically, however, the militia was used across the Canadian border in 1812 and across the Florida border in the Seminole War of 1818. MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE CIVIL WAR ...

Around 300 Native American Seneca and Cayuga warriors and about 250 white Americans, both militia and regulars, commenced one of the most interesting actions of the 1812 war just as the two main ...

of the Militia of the several States ... force hereby directed to be called forth. . . .” During the War of 1812, when President James Madison called up the militias, the New England ...

Historian Ron Dale’s presentation promises to bring to the stories to life behind some of the museum’s pieces from the nation-defining conflict ...

Three weeks later, others were repelled in Baltimore, where a hastily assembled militia of white Americans, free African Americans and enslaved Blacks defended the city. The U.S. had declared war in ...

ISBN: 0806190825 The Empire State at War New York’s War of 1812 does much to expose the key role of the ... largely from the New York militia. From that militia were organized the armies which fought ...