Rediscover 1812

Board game lets players battle for Great Lakes and Canada.
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Just another roadside attraction.
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This is a difficult era for small museums both in terms of falling attendance and funding. However, the overall picture hasn’t daunted the spirit of the War of 1812 Museum in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Here is a look at how the museum plans to expand overall. Perhaps some of the War of 1812 buffs out...
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The causes of the War of 1812 can be reduced to the simple fact that Great Britain did not recognize the young United States as a sovereign nation. Here are some of the specific reasons.
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A timeline of major events during the War of 1812 and the next two centuries, including the upcoming 1812 bicentennial.
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Based on a real person who shipped salt beef to the troops, Uncle Sam is an American symbol from the War of 1812 that endures today.
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What made someone join the Royal Marines during the War of 1812 to fight those pesky Americans? For starters, there was a promise of a daily ration of meat and rum.
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During the War of 1812, America relied heavily on its privateer fleet to harass British shipping and the attacks began to have a telling effect on British trade. Privateers were a sort of government-sanctioned pirate fleet that operated under a Letter of Marque and Reprisal issued by the president or the Crown – the British...
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The cost of being a War of 1812 reenactor is fairly substantial with these living historians spending hundreds of dollars on uniforms and reproduction weaponry.
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Enslaved Americans often found themselves forced to take sides during the War of 1812. For some, the promise of freedom offered by the British was hard to resist.
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