Harrison was subsequently able to retake Detroit with a victory in the Battle of Thames (in which Tecumseh was killed). Meanwhile, the U.S. navy had been able to score several victories over the Royal Navy in the early months of the war. With the defeat of Napoleon’s armies in April...
In the history of American conflicts, the War of 1812 is largely forgotten. And that's a shame, because it was a doozy. The War of 1812 started in June of ...
Victories at Sea the USS Constitution's defeat of HMS Guerriere, the capture of HMS Macedonian by the USS United States under Commodore Stephen Decatur, and the Battle of Lake Erie led by Oliver Hazard Perry, which secured control of the Great Lakes for the United States; these victories are...
and such seemed to be the case with the Bannack braves, who, in proportion as they crammed themselves with buffalo meat, grew stout of heart, until, the supper at an end, they began to chant war songs, setting forth their mighty deeds, and the victories they had gained over the Blackfe...
The End of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States of America, which began when the USA declared war on 18 June 1812, formally ended on 18 February 1815 when the US Senate unanimously ratified the Treaty of Ghent, which had been signed on 24 ...
The battle was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, and was considered one of the Confederacy’s greatest victories as well as, arguably, the best victory for General Robert E. Lee. Another significance of this battle is the death of the famous Stonewall Jackson, which devastated Lee. ...
Noun1.War of the Austrian Succession- Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748 Battle of Fontenoy,Fontenoy- a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberlan...
The French won narrow victories at Lindenau and Wachau on 16 October, but were beaten at Möckern. The Coalition lost 30,000 dead, wounded and prisoners and the French 25,000.[4]The French might have won a decisive victory at Wachau if either the two divisions that Ney marched around ...
Two hundred years ago, young U.S. forces withstood attacks from the British and their American Indian allies -- twice -- at Fort Meigs, putting an end to a string of earlier British victories in the War of 1812. The battles at Fort Meigs turned the tide for the young nation and fores...
Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, whose Pentagon office is decorated with depictions of American victories at sea during the War of 1812, told the crowd that Adm. Sir Mark Stanhope, Britain’s First Sea Lord, “ruefully” notes during his visits that“he is surrounded by paintings of burning Britis...