You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to finish one." On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors, Napoleon invaded Russia. Never in living memory had so ...

The War of 1812, often overlooked in American history, was sparked by grievances against Great Britain, including impressment of American sailors and British occupation of forts.

For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

Desperate to defeat Napoleon, Britain restricted U.S ... s identity is at stake,” says Wood, who calls 1812 “an ideological war.” It was also extremely unpopular. The vote to declare ...

A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II ...