The last battle of the War of 1812 wasn't the Battle of New Orleans. Instead, the last battle of the war involving significant British and American forces was fought in February 1815 in what is ...

BOSTON — The U.S. Navy’s oldest commissioned warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle that won it the nickname &#8… ...

Discover the hidden history of the War of 1812 at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe, Michigan—home to America’s only National Park unit dedicated to telling the story of Native nations and their ...

The bicentennial of the War of 1812, fought for three years until 1815, is passing with only local commemoration in the United States, although that war resulted in thousands of American and British ...

The Civil War was fought to preserve the union and/or end slavery. World War I was fought to save Europe. World War II was fought to save the world. Vietnam was fought to stop the spread of communism.

This Bush fought in War of 1812 By Annah Pritchett - Staff writer . Updated June 18, 2014 9:11 AM. George Washington Bush Middle School in Tumwater honors namesake with new monument ...

Taylor presents the war not as a second war of independence ... Immigrants, Indians, soldiers and settlers fought along the undefined northern borderland to decide the fate of the continent.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina’s oldest militia unit has honored four soldiers who fought in the War of 1812 as part of a bicentennial commemoration. The Fayetteville Observer reported ...

But ignorance of the War of 1812 lightens his role as Lacroix Company leader. “I made up some of the orders today, and they weren’t carried out well,” he concedes at the end of the wintry drill.

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 ...