No one calls the War of 1812 America’s finest hour. But it had its moments. Resentful over treatment by the British and determined to enhance national sovereignty, Henry Clay and a small group ...

On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Britain, after a bitterly divided Congress approved war in the closest such vote in U.S. history.

The War of 1812 officially began on June 18, 1812, when the United States House of Representatives signed a declaration of War against Great Britain, a country from which it had achieved independence ...

On the bicentennial of America's declaration of war against the United Kingdom, the BBC's Joan Soley says the War of 1812 still resonates today. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

On June 4, 1812, the House of Representatives voted 79 to 49 to declare war against Great Britain. In the next two weeks, the U.S. Senate debated the House's bill and on June 17, by a vote of 19 ...

The conflict officially began June 18, 1812, when President James Madison signed the declaration of war into law. He had sent a message to Congress, June 1, outlining grievances against Great Britain.

You have probably driven past these two War of 1812 graves on West Seneca Turnpike many times. ... President Madison signed the declaration of war on June 18, 1812. ...

A ceremony was held to launch the international bicentennial commemoration of the declaration of war against Great Britain signed by President Madison on June 18, 1812. President Obama, British ...

Yet Congress has declared war on only five occasions—and only once to initiate hostilities (the War of 1812 against Britain). There is no inconsistency in this.

On the 200th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Britain and its colonies, representatives of the United States, Britain and Canada gathered at Fort McHenry to sign a “declaration o… ...

On the bicentennial of America's declaration of war against the United Kingdom, the BBC's Joan Soley says the War of 1812 still resonates today.