David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

Though the War of 1812 ended without a military victor, the clear losers were Native Americans. Ravaged by war, and abandoned after it by the British, tribes east of the Mississippi could no ...

The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the ...

The War of 1812, often overlooked in American ... including impressment of American sailors and British occupation of forts. Despite initial American military failures and a lack of preparation ...

During the War of 1812, hundreds of enslaved African Americans ... originally purchased by the British but eventually freed after their military service. Many of these Black troops had already fought ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British ... a war but it’s very difficult to finish one." On June 24, 1812, ignoring ...

ISBN: 0806190825 The Empire State at War New York’s War of 1812 does much to expose the key role of the ... Four thousand one hundred New Yorkers volunteered to serve in the U.S. military during the ...