Violent protesters storming the US Capitol on Wednesday marked the first time that the building had been breached since the War of 1812. On Aug. 24, 1814, the British invaded Washington, D.C., and … ...

One US militiaman, named Webster, was one of the few people killed by a British Congreve rocket during the War of 1812. The British captured the US guns and turned them on the militia.

The War of 1812 was a series of military disasters, and its greatest U.S. victory came in the Battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8, 1815, after the Treaty had been signed in Belgium.

The bicentennial of the War of 1812, fought for three years until 1815, is passing with only local commemoration in the United States, although that war resulted in thousands of American and British ...

In June 1812, the votes for war in Congress (79 to 49 in the House; 19 to 13 in the Senate) were the narrowest of any declaration of war in U.S. history.

France: June 1 to June 26, 1918. The Battle of Belleau Wood, one of the most brutal battles fought by American forces in World War I, saw US Marines charge across a field of waist-high wheat into ...

The War of 1812 vs. Jan. 6: ... Maybe this will be what it takes for us to come together, that we find ourselves running for our lives, and we’re going to the same secure location.

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning Frenchtown’s depot, they were repelled at Elkton. Dr. Julie Shively, Command ...

More than 800 Royal Marines, British regulars and French prisoners, who volunteered to serve with the British, landed on the mainland, west of Craney Island, and moved east along the beach.

The Colonial Marines were on their way to join the British forces at New Orleans when the Treaty of Ghent was signed in Europe, ending the war, on Dec. 24, 1814.

Revisiting the War of 1812 reminds us that the nation remained incomplete in the early decades of the 19 th century. ... 4,000 Royal Marines marched into Washington.