“Bang,” one of the men says. After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S ...

The Greenbush Cantonment in East Greenbush played a pivotal role during the War of 1812 as a major U.S. Army training and ...

Oliver Hazard Perry, the U.S naval officer who won a decisive victory against the Royal Navy on Lake Erie during the War of 1812—“We have met the enemy and they are ours,” he declared ...

Friends Good Will was later used to transport military supplies to Fort Dearborn in what's now modern-day Chicago during the War of 1812. British forces captured the ship near Fort Mackinac in the ...

The Greenbush Cantonment in East Greenbush played a pivotal role during the War of 1812 ... in May 1812 on a 400-acre site, it was authorized by Major General Henry Dearborn, then commander ...