A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...

In the interwar years, the United States prepared for all kinds of future conflicts, including against its allies. Jonny ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The Battle of New Orleans, as painted by E.

The British defense secretary told Parliament that the Yantar, which he described as a Russian spy ship, had come near ...

Ultimately, what does it mean to be Canadian? They can draw strength from the War of 1812. Small bands of British soldiers, local militia and indigenous tribes held off the Americans as the two ...

The ship was awarded five battle stars for ... engagements but is most famous for seeing action in the War of 1812, defeating four British warships. This three-masted heavy frigate, known as ...

Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment.

But it was the ship ... British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the torpedoes that sank Argentina’s Belgrano in the Falklands War, it ...

"Robust action" has been promised after a Russian spy ship was spotted "loitering" in British waters. In what was described ... ashore would be a key part of Russia’s overall war effort, aimed at ...

With the war only a few months old, the entire Michigan territory had fallen into British hands. Yes — strangely enough, at sea. In 1812 and 1813, the tiny U.S. Navy bested the supposedly ...

who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry after a bombardment by British naval forces during the War of 1812. Composed in 1814, the song was enacted as ...

Back in 1812, we declared war on Britain and tried to invade Canada, a campaign Thomas Jefferson predicted would be “a mere matter of marching.” Bad beat. By 1814, the British had captured Washington ...