The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

He enthusiastically declared that he would “be buttered” if he could not again use old Betsy, the musket he carried at Great Bridge. In 1812, he served a short stint as a home guard during the ...

The most serious clash occurred when a revenue cutter cornered the smuggling vessel the Black Snake near the mouth of the Winooski River in Burlington. A smuggler and a local teenaged boy shot at the ...

The ship that was unearthed from the rocky bottom of the river, it turned out, was the remnants of the “Elizabeth and Mary,” one of a small flotilla of some 30 boats that carried soldiers from New ...

In his temper, the Carolinian is gay and fond of company, easily irritated, and quick to resent even the appearance of insult -- Joseph Allston, governor of South Carolina, 1812.

We collected all our men, armed with muskets; the marines were drawn up ... The Indians were getting better quality merchandise. When the War of 1812 formally ended on December 24, 1814, the ...

muskets in hand with cannons at the ready. A snapshot of the War of 1812, Fort George is a former military post that was pivotol in defending Upper Canada against American advances during this ...

As the challenged party, Brock picked pistols at “handkerchief distance”. A “second” on the sidelines was tasked with dropping a handkerchief as a signal to fire. It is suspected that Brock picked the ...