By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

In the immediate aftermath of the war, American commentators painted the battles of 1812-15 as part of a glorious “second war for independence.” As the 19th century progressed, this view ...

The United States was the first to declare war, though after repeated British ... a Canadian artist who organized a recent 1812 art exhibit in Toronto. For America, meanwhile, the late victory ...

Oliver Hazard Perry, the U.S naval officer who won a decisive victory against the Royal Navy on Lake Erie during the War of 1812—“We ... to be built in the United States since 1903, it ...