In 1788, while heading out to the whaling ground, it was wrecked in bad weather. All 56 crew members survived.

Calling all history buffs! Step back in time at one of these significant sites in each state, from Revolutionary War ...

During the War of 1812, hundreds of enslaved men, women and children would do anything to help secure their freedom. Even if ...

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.” — Francis Scott Key, September 1814, Flag at Fort McHenry By Jacquelin Carnegie - ...

During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

The Louisiana National Guard has returned the name Camp Beauregard to its military training center in Pineville, honoring a state militia veteran from the War of 1812 instead of the Confederate ...

The British military invaded Brooklyn with an awesome show of force, landing 15,000 men by noon, on August 22, 1776, marking one of the darkest days of the American Revolution.

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 ...

Sep. 6—CLAYTON — Samuel Linnell, War of 1812 veteran and prisoner of war, finally has a headstone. It was installed this summer at Clayton Center Cemetery, an inactive and abandoned graveyard ...

The War of 1812 was particularly devastating to the seacoast communities in New England, including Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This was the situation that Portsmouth attorney Daniel Webster faced ...

If the British would not honor his efforts then he would share the treasonous information he had gathered with the other side… if they were willing to pay. By this time James Madison had become ...