It’s no wonder Britain didn’t take the war seriously at first. The saying “Don’t give up the ship!” comes from the War of 1812. Those were the dying words of Captain James Lawrence of ...

In the 19th century, the Canadian historian William Kingsford was only half-joking when he commented, “The events of the War of 1812 have not ... home to England, a captain on one of the Royal ...

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