1812 The War of 1812: A 12-year-old John Brown travels through the Michigan wilderness to deliver a herd of cattle. He lodged with a man who owned a boy slave. Brown was treated well, but the ...

But the June 1812 vote to go to war only narrowly passed the House and the Senate, and critics condemned "Mr. Madison's War" as a foolhardy adventure, motivated less by crimes at sea than by a ...

Yes. And no. Consider the timeline. The British commander Sir Isaac Brock took a U.S. sniper's bullet to the heart turning back a U.S. invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. In 1874 ...