“The War of 1812” is an easy handle for students who struggle with dates. But the name is a misnomer that makes the conflict sound like a mere wisp of a war that began and ended the same year. In ...

Following almost two months of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, U.S. and British forces have launched repeated strikes against Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen. Named for their ...

Two hundred years ago today, a young U.S. naval captain named Oliver Hazard Perry penned the words, "We have met the enemy and they are ours ..." Perry's remarkable victory over the British changed ...

In this book, the author, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian tells the story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle ...

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 ...

America got sucked into the War of 1812, which is remembered elsewhere as a struggle between Britain and France for supremacy in Europe. American merchants were doing a brisk business supplying both ...

The War of 1812 is a mindbender among naval wars. Seldom does a society mistake defeat for victory and codify the loser strategy as the playbook for future conflicts. But so it was for the United ...

Flag Day at Old Fort Niagara on Friday will set the stage for the return to the fort of one of the oldest surviving American flags. The fort is getting its original War of 1812 garrison flag back.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On September 13, 1814 British forces bombarded Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. American lawyer, author and amateur poet Francis Scott Key watched from a distance. As the sun ...

It's targeted for demolition, but historic preservationists say it's a rare surviving example of a segmental stone arch culvert.