Yet the War of 1812 still struggles for notice ... it narrowly voted down a proposal to relocate the capital rather than rebuild. The beleaguered U.S. government also defaulted on the national ...

When rioters forced their way into the House chamber on 6 January, it marked the first time since the War of 1812 that the seat of US democracy had been breached. The BBC's North America ...

The War of 1812, says historian Hickey ... the attack on the nation’s capital and the capture of Beanes. On September 7, 1814, Key, accompanied by American prisoner-of-exchange officer John ...

Trump's return to the White House has ushered in a dizzying change for many in the Justice Department, but perhaps few have ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning ...

York Militia, but few could boast the battlefield resumé that Shepard had already built, having borne witness to some of the most pivotal events in the opening stages of the War of 1812.

He asked Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812, and the war began so badly ... In 1814 the British went so far as to burn the White House and Capitol Building as a fleeing Madison watched ...

but perhaps few have felt it more than the lawyers who spent years working on the largest-scale serious attack on the Capitol since the war of 1812. As a deputy chief of the now-disbanded Capitol ...