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In the Summer of 1813, as the War of 1812 waged across the United States, Major George Armistead wrote to General Samuel Smith: We, sir, are ready at...

Encouraged by their victory at Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, and subsequent burning of Washington, D.C., the British turned north, intent on...

In April 1813, after having seized the port city of Mobile in West Florida (today Alabama) from Spanish hands, the United States promptly began the...

Standing at an imposing six-and-a-half feet tall and being the son of a Revolutionary War officer, Winfield Scott was bound to seek a career in the...

By 1812, the port city of Baltimore had solidified its place in the young United States as a burgeoning economic metropolis. Although it was founded...

The burning of Washington, D.C., in 1814 was one of America’s darkest hours. The new republic that had been created by the Founding Fathers less than...

Fact #1: The war was fought between Great Britain and the United States from 1812-1815. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great...

At the start of the War of 1812, the United States Navy found itself completely outmatched by the many times larger Royal Navy on the open ocean, with...

It is no exaggeration to say that that the United States owed its victory in the Revolutionary War to the Kingdom of France. Even before the combined...

In the first few years of the 19th century, the great powers of Europe raged against each other during the Napoleonic Wars. Great Britain, the nominal...

By the summer of 1814, just thirty years after securing independence from the British, the young United States again found itself engaged in a war...

On a late February morning in 1804, Lord Horatio Nelson, busy besieging the French Mediterranean port of Toulon, heard some news about a conflict to...