Commemorating history has no purpose for dead people. They don’t care anymore. It is not intended for the sake
Topic: War of 1812
78 articles tagged War of 1812
REVIEW Carl Benn, Native Memoirs from the War of 1812: Black Hawk and William Apess (Johns Hopkins University Press
July 20 Eight men convicted of treason in a special assize at Ancaster were hanged at Burlington. July 25
The following is a severe compression of a longer article, entitled “Why the White House Was Burned: An Investigation
On 1 January 1814 Napoleon received a note from his brother Joseph Bonaparte expressing the hope “that the year
REVIEW John R. Grodzinski, Defender of Canada: Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812. Foreword by Donald E.
REVIEW Donald E. Graves, And All Their Glory Past: Fort Erie, Plattsburgh and the Final Battles in the North,
For anyone interested in the naval aspects of the War of 1812 on the lakes, the work of Canadian
Earlier this year, the Montreal-based CSL Group completed Tecumseh—a 228.5-metre, 71,405-tonne Trillium-class self-unloader. The cargo ship, among the most
Though Stephen Harper spent up to $24 million helping us commemorate the War of 1812, little was spent in
JUNE Fort York Historic District Walking Tour in association with Heritage Toronto: War, Invasion & Occupation!: Fort York &
J.D.M. Stewart teaches history in the Canadian, Business, and World Studies Dept. at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. Last autumn
The War of 1812 is an event highly regarded by Canadians, barely acknowledged by Americans, forgotten by the British,
JUNE Fort York Historic District Walking Tour in association with Heritage Toronto: War, Invasion & Occupation!: Fort York &
Compiled by Richard Haynes, Site Co-ordinator at Fort York Ongoing Summer Programming Daily throughout July and August, 10 am
Few North American cities can boast, as can Toronto, the remarkable fact that seven of its eight oldest buildings
In 1812 York may have been a “dirty straggling village,” but Upper Canada’s capital was also a place of
Fort York Ongoing Summer Programming Daily throughout July, 10 am to 5 pm Thrill to the boom of the
Anyone familiar with the War of 1812 will surely recognize the portrait below of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812).
In November 1812 the 24-gun Madison was launched at Sackets Harbor, New York. The Americans would now control Lake
In July 1812 Zebulon Montgomery Pike was commissioned a colonel and ordered to command the Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, then
REVIEW Jonathon Riley, A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock. London: Frontline Books /
With roots in this city extending back over two hundred years, the Cawthras come close to being a founding
Among the midway amusements, model airplanes buzzing around the Coliseum, and other attractions on Children’s Day at the 1936
