The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of ...

The Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site and the Sackets Harbor Heritage Committee will recognize Celebrate Trails Day on Saturday, April 26, with a "Pike Hike," honoring the life and legacy ...

The Green Mountain State shines in just about every season, but Vermont in the fall is special. Autumn is when people travel ...

"If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the US," he said ... to capture Canadian territory during the 1812 War. In 1844, some Americans called ...

So, let’s get rid of all the foreign names and use good old-fashioned American names. (Notwithstanding that the name “America” was first used to honor Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by German ...

There’s a place in northeastern Mississippi where the Appalachian foothills make their final, dramatic stand before ...

The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early 19th century.

For decades, the group has re-enacted crucial battles and moments from the War of 1812. The United States ... attempted to take British-held land in Canada, but were met with stiff resistance ...

American anger at the British, the former colonial overlords who at the time ruled Canada. The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early ...

For decades, the group has re-enacted crucial battles and moments from the War of 1812. The United States declared war on ... During the war, the Americans attempted to take British-held land in ...

Our Founding Fathers and their immediate successors certainly wanted Canada to join the American union. The War of 1812 not only centered on defeating the final abuses of the British, but ...

After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ... with a land invasion—of Canada. By occupying land ...