Sir Amédée Forestier, The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814, 1914, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sulgrave Institution of the U.S. and Great Britain.
War of 1812 Leaders
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Robert Ross
Robert Ross was a successful British general during the Napoleonic Wars, but he died during the War of 1812 at the Battle of North Point - just...
Zebulon Pike
Prior to the War of 1812, Pike was a well-traveled explorer of the American West as an army captain commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to...
James Madison: War Message to Congress
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I communicate to Congress certain documents, being a continuation of those heretofore...
James Lawrence
Many noted figures from the War of 1812 either had relatives that served in or were themselves involved with, the War for Independence. Not so with...
George Prévost
Raised in a family strongly connected with the British Army, the young George Prévost was born in New Jersey, the son of a Swiss immigrant from Geneva...
Henry Dearborn
Born in the New Hampshire Colony to one of the oldest families in New England, Henry Dearborn grew up privileged, well-educated and was beginning a...
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