Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson ... Meilan Solly In 1813, an American sealing vessel ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

Some might wonder what would have happened if Porter had a couple of machine guns. Others might say that’s ridiculous, because the machine gun wouldn’t be invented until the late 1800s. But was ...

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America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...