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Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Photograph

Sketch of Fort Shelby

Date: 1814
Description: Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F...
Painting

Fort Shelby/Fort McKay

Date: 1823
Description: British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Burning of Washington, D.C., Newspaper Coverage

Date: 08 27 1814
Description: Newspaper article on the "Capture and Destruction of the Capital" relating information on the burning of Washington, D.C. on August 24, 1814. The city was ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Peace, Newspaper Article

Date: 02 13 1815
Description: Newspaper article declaring peace between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the War of 1812.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"The Baltimore Patriot" Printing of "The Star Spangled Banner"

Date: 09 20 1814
Description: First newspaper printing of "The Star Spangled Banner". Printed six days after the Battle of Fort McHenry, where Frances Scott Key wrote the poem that woul...

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