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Francis Scott Key was born on August 1, 1779. His father, John Ross Key, had just returned from being a second lieutenant in Captain Thomas Price’s...

Jacob Brown was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to the New York frontier as a settler in 1798. He served as an officer in the New York militia...

Pakenham was an Anglo-Irish career officer in the British Army. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 92nd Regiment of Foot he first saw action during...

Prior to the War of 1812, Pike was a well-traveled explorer of the American West as an army captain commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to...

Winder was first commissioned into the United States Army as a Colonel with the onset of the War of 1812. He was quickly promoted to Brigadier General...

Sheaffe was born in Boston to Loyalist parents, and educated at Harvard. In 1778, he secured a commission in the 5th Regiment of Foot. He first saw...

Ross was born in Ireland and commissioned into the 25th Regiment of Foot after completing college. As a junior officer during the French Revolutionary...

Despite serving as an officer in the American Revolution and a brigadier general in the War of 1812, James Winchester suffered a rather disappointing...

Dr. William Beanes was born on January 24, 1749, in Croom, a small town in Prince George’s County, Maryland. As a small child, Beanes grew up in an...

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...

Born into an accomplished naval family in South Kingston, Rhode Island on August 23, 1785, Oliver Hazard Perry’s life would be dominated by maritime...

The last American president to be born a British subject, William Henry Harrison grew up in the backdrop of Berkeley Plantation, one of Virginia’s...