French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...

Painting by Robert Dodd shows the USS Chesapeake (left) as it approaches the HMS Shannon during the War of 1812. The Chesapeake ... heighten nationalism, and empower those seeking confrontation." ...

He was an ex-military officer who had repeatedly confronted Anglo-Canadian forces as commander of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment in 1812 ... strategist and Canadian war hero Tecumseh was killed.

The war of 1812 was fueled by issues like British trade restrictions ... restoring pre-war borders but resolving few underlying tensions. The war boosted American nationalism and confirmed US ...

On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain and its colonies. The declaration stemmed from the nearly 20 years of warfare between Great Britain and Napoleonic France that had ...

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 ...

The gravestone for Samuel Neale, a Black veteran who served as a surgeon's mate in the War of 1812, shortly after being unveiled Saturday at St. John's Cemetery in downtown Frederick. More in U.S.

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional military honor due to protocols dating to the slavery era will be memorialized in a Frederick cemetery this weekend, though not by the ...

The American flag that was raised to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812 -- and which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star-Spangled Banner" -- is on ...

On June 22, 1922, British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, considered a great hero of World War One who helped bring ... Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812. News of Wilson’s killing ...

With the war in Ukraine heading into what will seemingly be a bloody ... Russia during a political crisis known as the Time of Troubles, and extends through the 1812 French invasion of Russia under ...