Controlling the Waterways at Sackets Harbor
One year into the conflict known as the War of 1812, both American and British forces were keen to exert control over Lake Ontario and the St...
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The Great Lakes in the War of 1812
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...
The Quasi-War
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...
The Monroe-Pinkney Treaty
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...
A Federal City in Flames
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...
The Barbary Wars
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...
Andrew Jackson: Old Hickory - Adored and Despised
Throughout his career, Andrew Jackson would inspire fear and hatred, but also devotion and love. Then, as now, Jackson did not inspire mildness.
William Henry Harrison: Tippecanoe and Political Spin Too
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the colony, and later state, of Virginia was dominated socially, economically and politically by the owners of...
Start Reading About the War of 1812
A short list of some of the notable works on the war and its political, social and cultural context recommended for students, scholars, educators and...
Great Babylon on the Gulf
Brief summary article about New Orleans in the War of 1812
The Decision at Craney Island
This American triumph, engineered by the OTHER Armistead brother, was easily overshadowed by disasters elsewhere in the summer of 1813. But it almost...
Artillery Across Three Wars
This article provides a brief history of the artillery used during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.