Looking now to “Old Rough and Ready” - Zachary TaylorPrior to becoming the twelfth president Taylor joined the military at ...

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed ... D.C., which had barely 8,000 residents. (President James Madison’s Attorney General Richard Rush called ...

Since its original construction in 1800, the building has undergone several renovations and expansions to accommodate the ...

Insights Some generals went on to become President of the United States.  All of the generals became well-known because of ...

James Madison, the fourth president of these young United States ... we see the misty peak that is the Revolution. But the War of 1812? We don’t know why it happened, or where the battles ...

During the War of 1812, when President James Madison called up the militias, the New England states, opposed to the war and threatening secession, objected to the president’s powers. In response ...

I prefer to vote “for” someone, and not merely “against” a candidate. But I have issues with the two presidential candidates.

Throughout the early days of Arkansas' statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the "The ...

The General Society War of 1812 in Mississippi announced the marker Tuesday, which interprets the Naval Battle of Bay St.

As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals. He asked Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812, and the war began so badly that by fighting to a ...

These ranged from large wars, such as the War of 1812, to small engagements to fight naval piracy. It was also relatively common for Congress to restrict the president to the use of specific types ...

The public is invited to remember and celebrate local Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans in the coming weeks. In the Laurens Village cemetery, the Laurens Village Cemetery Improvement ...