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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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Causes. One reason given by Americans for declaring war was...
- 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
While the American flotilla was bottled up in the creek, the...
- 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...
- Battle of Bladensburg
The Battle of Bladensburg, also known as the Bladensburg...
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Mar 26, 2024 · War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
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2 days ago · List of wars: 1800–1899. This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
4 days ago · The congresses of Venezuela and New Granada did so in 1811 and also Paraguay in same year (14 and 15 May 1811). Some historians explain the reluctance to declare independence as a "mask of Ferdinand VII": that is, that patriot leaders felt that they needed to claim loyalty to the deposed monarch to prepare the masses for the radical change that ...
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Mar 29, 2024 · River water disturbed by uplift and subsidence also washed out forested areas upstream. New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12, series of three large earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid, Missouri, between December 1811 and February 1812. There were thousands of aftershocks, of which 1,874 were large enough to be felt in Louisville, Kentucky ...
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Apr 10, 2024 · Charles Sumner (born Jan. 6, 1811, Boston—died March 11, 1874, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. statesman of the American Civil War period dedicated to human equality and to the abolition of slavery. A graduate of Harvard Law School (1833), Sumner crusaded for many causes, including prison reform, world peace, and Horace Mann’s educational reforms.
Apr 5, 2024 · Indications of prehistoric “sand blows” lead scientists to suspect major earthquakes in the New Madrid zone around the years 900 and 1450 AD. Seismologists predict a twenty-five to forty percent chance of another major earthquake (6.0 or above) in the New Madrid seismic zone by the year 2040, with great damage and loss of life.