American Gen. Wade Hampton marched his 2,000 soldiers along the banks of the Châteauguay River, part of a two-pronged American push towards Montreal. There, he was met by an all-Canadian force under ...

Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British ... It was not blood itself, but the red coats in which the British soldiers were dressed. The field was entirely covered ...

The outnumbered Redcoats quickly retreated, but not before three of their men were killed and four men -- all officers -- wounded. The first British blood had been shed. Around mid-morning ...

Almost 4,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the castle's Redcoat Cafe be renamed because of its links to the British Army's crushing defeat of the Jacobites and the Highland ...

At the time of the War of 1812, Canada was a British colony ... Many of the officers were British, and the bulk of the Redcoats that put Washington to the torch had likely never set foot in ...