says the War of 1812 attracts fewer participants than any other. “It’s not a Hollywood kind of war,” he says. This is especially true of the River Raisin fight. At first, Americans succeeded ...

The justification for this begins with the numbers: Roughly 20,000 on all sides died fighting the War of 1812 compared with over 3.5 million in the Napoleonic. But the brevity with which the war ...

This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to ...