Looking now to “Old Rough and Ready” - Zachary TaylorPrior to becoming the twelfth president Taylor joined the military at ...

The event honors the American troops that confronted a larger British army attempting to take control of the village of ...

This year’s Battle of Plattsburgh commemoration began on Wednesday with a series of memorial services including honoring the ...

The public is invited to remember and celebrate local Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans in the coming weeks.

No other conflict in our history found us so unready or ill-prepared as the War of 1812, argues Elting, who here presents the military side of the war and emphasizes the amateurishness of the ...

And of course it is—which is why Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 only focuses on a 70-page ... the story is focused more on the domestic side of War and Peace than the military ...

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 ...

“Slaves and free Blacks served as soldiers during a crisis,” said historian Gene Allen Smith, author of “The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812.” “But once the trouble passed, both ...

The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.

Harper's conservative government has invested millions in memorial activities and other War of 1812 paraphernalia ... to have Canadians identify with the military and conservative values ...

Under a murky, drizzling sky, four American militiamen, dressed in their 19th century uniforms and replica weapons in hand, surveyed the land. Then they took their place in line, reading over the ...