1,000 re-enactors participate in Mississinewa event The re-enactment is in its 25th year The event continues through Sunday MARION, Ind. -- Smoke from campfires wafts among the sycamores lining the ...

The War of 1812 was a major conflict between the United States and Great Britain for control of the Northern Frontier. Often ...

Central New York -- As 2012 begins, New York state and Central New York organizations are gearing up to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Oswego County played a central role in the ...

(WHSV) - On December 24, 1814, representatives for the U.S. and Britain met at Ghent, Belgium, to sign the Treaty of Peace ...

Grab your fife and drum because your next four weekends are booked solid with historical reenactments, fireworks and 19th-century-themed festivals commemorating the War of 1812. For people living in ...

MONTGOMERY -- The last battle of the War of 1812 wasn't the Battle of New Orleans, at which U.S. troops led by Andrew Jackson defeated British troops on Jan. 8, 1815. Instead, the last battle of the ...

The War of 1812 saw the last foreign invasion on Canadian soil. Ironically, its commemoration has become a battleground in Canada. The arrival of the war's bicentennial has ushered in a national ...

Two hundred years ago this June, the still-new nation of the United States reopened hostilities against its bothersome British adversaries, and the War of 1812 began its long march into Canadian ...

The War of 1812 in Michigan would decide who controlled the Northwestern Frontier. The frontier was a gateway to further western expansion; a Great Lakes highway to natural resources; and a military ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 4, 2014) -- The Americans needed a victory after the humiliation at Bladensburg, Maryland, and the burning of the Capitol. They didn't have to wait long. The ...

It’s only natural that the War of 1812 should be on President Donald Trump’s mind. It was during that conflict between an infant United States and its former colonial master Great Britain that Francis ...

These days, it’s hard to think of a veteran who could have served from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. It’s happened, of course, but imagine a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War fighting ...