Historically, however, the militia was used across the Canadian border in 1812 and across the Florida border in the Seminole War of 1818. MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE CIVIL WAR ...

I think the general consensus view is that for the President to use military power abroad as ... the more prominent invasions would be the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor. In both conflicts, Congress ...

Tennessee became known as the "Volunteer State" during the War of 1812, according to the ... just like the ones that volunteered in the Tennessee militia in 1812, 1835 and again in 1848.