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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Tenskwatawa
Originally born Lalawethika, meaning “the rattle” in Algonquian, Tenskwatawa was a unique individual living on the fringe of Shawnee society. At the...
William Hull
Despite his decades of service, William Hull’s contemporaries held his record in low esteem, partially due to one particular moment in the War of 1812...
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 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...
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...
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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