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The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
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The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans on December 1, 1814, and took charge of the city's defense, commanding that waterways be obstructed...
Shortly before Mordechai Booth fled the capital on Wednesday, August 24, 1814, he rode over to the President’s House to see wh...
WASHINGTON, Friday—The long expected arrival of Their Britannic Majesties has at last taken place. We drove down yesterday through an...
One of the most moving moments in the early history of the White House took place in the Entrance Hall, w...
During the 1850s Japan gradually began to discard its isolationist foreign policy of sakoku (“locked country”) and began opening some of i...
On September 8, 1814, the Madisons moved into the Octagon, second in size only to the burned President's House, and the only...
Washington awoke to a humid, cloudy day as an occupied city on August 25. Cockburn and Captain John Wainwright of Cockburn's...
Britain's navy began its war in North Atlantic waters with a crushing advantage over the United States in numbers of...
The British decided in 1814 to relieve pressure on their forces in Canada by launching diversionary assaults in the Chesapeake Bay...
President James Madison arrived back in Washington about 5:00 p.m. on August 27, 1814 and took up temporary lodgings at the F...
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. He was the third of four children of Janet Woodrow and...