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War of 1812: Impressment, Napoleon, and the American Struggle
Keywords War of 1812, Great Britain, impressment, American Navy, military failures, Oliver Hazard Perry, Andrew Jackson, sovereignty, American independence, historical significance Email us at ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812
The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the ...
Union Leader20h
Wheeler’s history of Newport includes the story of a Black settlement.
The History of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878, with a Genealogical Register,” by Edmund Wheeler provides a brisk, ...
The Vancouver Sun21d
Distant war of 1812 helped create B.C.
Britain and the United States had been at war ... The Indians were getting better quality merchandise. When the War of 1812 formally ended on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent stipulated ...
Erie Times-News28d
First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812
Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the ... were made to try to confirm information that the British in Canada were "fitting out an expedition ...