After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers died in a defeat so ...

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning ...

Edward Skeen, author of Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812, but “to end the war on a high note certainly pumped up American pride,” particularly since “most counted simple survival [in the ...

“In 2025, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps return to their birthplace to mark 250 years of service with Homecoming 250 — a ...