defeated the British ship Guerriere in August 1812. The victory helped rally American spirits and persuade Congress to spend $2.5 million — about $34 million in today’s dollars — to build ...

David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

Not long after British assault troops stormed past the outnumbered ... Virginia and its Militia in the War of 1812.” By the time a second raid rowed within three miles of the town on July ...

On the connections among the war, public debt, Madison's Second Bank of the United States, inflation, government-sanctioned suspension of specie ... the British government in June 1812, that ...