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An Unlikely Army of Militia and Pirates Shocked the World by Defeating the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans
Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British, but Native Americans. His infamous treatment of Indigenous peoples would tarnish his reputation in the history books ...
The time Canadians fought off an American invasion
American Gen. Wade Hampton marched his 2,000 soldiers along the banks of the Châteauguay River, part of a two-pronged American push towards Montreal. There, he was met by an all-Canadian force under ...
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Indigenous people’s experience is not our story to tell
Many will argue Canada would easily have lost the war of 1812 without the support of Tecumseh and the ... But in this case we were loath to take the words said to us by indigenous people and put it ...