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1 day ago · The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the ...
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The War of 1812 was fought between the British Empire and...
- Burning of Washington
British and American movements during the Chesapeake...
- Sixty Years
The Sixty Years' War (French: Guerre de Soixante Ans;...
- Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815,...
- Philip Broke
Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet KCB (/ ˈ b r ʊ k /;...
- List of War of 1812 Battles
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- Old Northwest
The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and...
- Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218) was the peace treaty that...
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May 2, 2024 · Democratic-Republican. The 1816–17 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 30, 1816 and August 14, 1817. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 15th United States Congress convened on December 1, 1817.
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Apr 25, 2024 · Rufus King was a Founding Father of the United States who helped frame the federal Constitution and effect its ratification. An active Federalist senator and able diplomat, he ran unsuccessfully for vice president (1804, 1808) and for president (1816). After graduating from Harvard in 1777, he
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4 days ago · The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [1] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons. [2] The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and most of the area of today's ...
May 3, 2024 · Early Years George Henry Thomas was born in on July 31, 1816, the youngest son of a wealthy, slave-owning family of planters. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from 1836 until 1840 and finished twelfth in a class of forty-two. (His classmates included Sherman and the future Confederate general Richard S. Read more about: George H. Thomas (1816–1870)
Apr 17, 2024 · Focus on Westward Expansion. In US history, the period of settlement 1800–50 when Americans pushed the frontier westwards in search of land and resources, economic opportunities, a better life, and, for some, religious freedom. In 1803 the USA comprised 17 eastern and central states, however the Louisiana Purchase (land bought from France in ...
3 days ago · Publication Date: 1816 Gothic novel featuring a thinly disguised depiction of the author and her former lover, Lord Byron, who is painted as a war hero who turns traitor against Irish nationalism. Northanger Abbey, 1818
