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2 days 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
Wasp (1813) versus HMS Reindeer (June 28, 1814): A battle in...
- 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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5 days ago · Edgar Allan Poe (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere ...
4 days ago · An Act Declaring War Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and the United States of America and Their Territories. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That war be and the same is hereby declared to exist between the United ...
4 days ago · 1811: Battle of Tippecanoe: U.S. outnumbering Native Americans resulting in defeat and burning of community; 1812–1815: War of 1812 between the United States and Britain; ends in a draw, except that Native Americans lose power. 1813–1837: Afghan–Sikh Wars. 1814–1816: Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.
8 hours ago · The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
- 2 May 1808 (sometimes 27 October 1807) – 17 April 1814, (5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
8 hours ago · The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Latin Kingdom, was a Crusader state that was established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade.It lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the fall of Acre in 1291.
1 day ago · Other researchers say that the Khanty people originated in the south Ural steppe and moved northwards into their current location about 500 AD. A Turkic people, the Khazars , ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas through to the 8th century. [20]
