The bicentennial of the War of 1812 was launched April 16, 2012, in New Orleans with a commemoration that revolved around the Navy's Fleet Week celebration there. Military kicks off War of 1812 ...

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.

After the war, Jackson moved to Tennessee and conducted a political career, but by 1812, he was back in the military. Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British, but ...

Instructively, the War of 1812 highlights the wisdom of Washington’s and Adams’ military procurements, but also reveals the insufficient spending of Congress in Jefferson’s first ...

More about the pre-war Army of 1812 can be found in the Center of Military History's publication 74-1, Defending the New Nation, by Dr. John R. Maass. CALL TO ARMS ...

Workers from Lough Memorials erect a headstone in St. John’s Cemetery for Samuel A. Neale, a Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied the traditional military honor because of protocols ...

According to Scire’s ruling, the Maryland militia’s 1st Cavalry Regiment had in effect been federalized during the War of 1812 — summoned out of state duty and into federal service, as ...

The Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815, had been won by U.S. forces, and the War of 1812 was essentially over. To celebrate this occasion, a Grand Military Victory ...

The War of 1812 might almost be considered America’s forgotten war, but at the time, when the nation was only three decades old, it was significant. My visit to the fort, today operated by the ...

A forgotten African-American veteran of the War of 1812 has received military honors at Eastern Cemetery, 150 years after his death. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11.