Historically, however, the militia was used across the Canadian border in 1812 and across the Florida border in the Seminole War of 1818. MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE CIVIL WAR ...

And Canada seemed an easy target. It had a population of only 500,000, while the U.S. was home to 7.5 million, and Britain was busy battling France. Many Americans thought they'd be welcomed as ...

Brigadier-General Isaac Brock had 300 British regulars and 400 Canadian militia. Six hundred native warriors joined Brock's army at Detroit to fight the Americans in August 1812. (As portrayed in ...

True, the Canadian dollar hasn't helped ... Osinski, who often represents a New York militia unit that volunteered for federal service in December 1812, said he is optimistic the current tensions ...

The War of 1812 certainly does support ... rhetoric about the possibility of military conflict tend to erode the work of generations. Genuine US-Canadian enmity seems essentially inconceivable ...

Simpson says the War of 1812 was “unnecessary ... Salaberry’s was an old military family, Canadian since the 1700s. His Voltigeurs Canadiens (whose traditions are carried on today by ...

True, the Canadian dollar hasn't helped ... Osinski, who often represents a New York militia unit that volunteered for federal service in December 1812, said he is optimistic the current tensions ...

During the War of 1812, the Americans, boasting a superior military force ... creating a new spirit of Canadian nationalism in the process. This timeline and map detail the key advances and ...

York Militia, but few could boast the battlefield resumé that Shepard had already built, having borne witness to some of the most pivotal events in the opening stages of the War of 1812.