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 ...

Edward Cailleteau, Caroline Martin, Shelby Villere and Shannon Walgamotte at the Society of the War of 1812 Grand Military Victory Ball 2018 at the Metairie Country Club. Friday, January 5, 2018 ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of ...

For the Founders, the militia arose from the posse comitatus, constituting the people as a whole and embodying the Anglo-American idea that the citizenry is the best enforcer of the law.

URBANA — Ronald Irick calls Gen. William Hull’s wilderness march from Urbana to Detroit in the opening days of the War of 1812 “the local event here that nobody remembers.

Archivist and musicologist Nicholas Butler talked about the military and social history of Charleston, South Carolina, beginning in 1776 when it was first attacked by the British. Though no ...

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 ...

Title supplied from donor's provenance information. These were the tunes that stirred up the patriotism in the bosom of our fathers. This old music book belonged to Uri Bishop who was a fifer in the ...

Following the loss of Detroit in August 1812 and the defeat at Frenchtown in January 1813, the western Ohio frontier lay open to attacks by the British and its Native American allies.

A Virginia war veteran was honored Friday, something that took more than 200 years in the making. The National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 gathered at St. Stephens Episcopal Church ...

On Jan. 8, 1815, the United States won the Battle of New Orleans, and the War of 1812 was essentially over. To celebrate this occasion, a Grand Military Victory Ball was organized, at which young ...