This small log and sand fortification was attacked twice by the British during the War of 1812. The first attack made by four ...

a sprawling US National Guard training facility and islands that the British Royal Navy battled for and lost during the War of 1812. A majority of voters here had backed the eventual winner of ...

The event honors the American troops that confronted a larger British army attempting to take control of the village of ...

Volume 28, published in 1812, concentrates on the Anglo-American War of 1812. It discusses events surrounding the war, and reprints state papers detailing America's grievances with Britain and the ...

Oliver Grace Jr. was born in Ireland in 1785 and joined his father in Canada when he was 16 years old. By 1809 they had ...

The area has a naval history and we are keeping it going,' says Ships Company of Penetanguishene crew member Wendy "Birdie" ...

This report was originally published in August 2014 to mark the event’s 200th anniversary. 7 a.m., Aug. 24, 1814 The day began like so many days in Washington, with a painfully long meeting ...

Somebody the other day described the British Empire as an irritating appendage to the Royal Navy, and this is very ... The War of 1812 might easily have been the first of many between America ...

provide and maintain a Navy.... In 1641, an act of Parliament firmly over-ruled King Charles’s assertion that he had a right under royal prerogative ... and the War of 1812 with the British.

1812," one Twitter user wrote in response to ... at the British forcing American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, as well as trade restrictions on the US. Another factor was British support ...

a contributory factor to the war with the United States in 1812). From 1807 to 1870, the Royal Navy had a squadron permanently based in West Africa, although ending the trans-African trade by ...

The day began like so many days in Washington, with a painfully long meeting marked by confusion, misinformation and indecision. The British were coming. They were on the march in the general ...