WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 2, 2014) -- The burning of federal buildings in the nation's capital 200 years ago this week was a psychological victory for the British, but little else ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

She proved an invincible force at sea. "The Constitution went on to defeat or capture seven more British ships in the War of 1812 and ran the British blockade of Boston twice," notes History.com.