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War on the Lakes
If the U.S. Navy was to defeat the British during the War of 1812, it would not do so on the open seas. The battles that ...
Marking Washington’s 250th birthday in 1982, President Reagan touted him as “a giant for freedom.” After President Eisenhower ...
The purchase of Greenland and the annexation of Canada are rooted in the 19th century concept of manifest destiny. Trump ...
Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in ...
For the U.S. and Canada, a looming Canada tariff fight threatens the Great Lakes, posing the biggest threat to Great Lakes trade since the War of 1812. In America, President Donald Trump has ...
But the June 1812 vote to go to war only narrowly passed the House and the Senate, and critics condemned "Mr. Madison's War" as a foolhardy adventure, motivated less by crimes at sea than by a ...
National City Bank would later become Citibank. Source: Vers Demain Journal But a prominent historian insists that the War of 1812 was, in fact, all about commercial supremacy. As explained in ...
Our conflicts generally have been fought abroad. A few of the more prominent invasions would be the War of 1812 and Pearl Harbor. In both conflicts, Congress issued declarations of war against ...