James Madison, who stood less than 5'5" tall, was short even by the standards of his contemporaries. Some accounts suggest he weighed as little as 100 pounds. Among Dolley Madison's many improvemen...

"To have shrunk, under such circumstances, from manly resistence, would have been a degradation blasting our best and proudest hopes; it would have struck us from the high ranks where the virtuous...

Number of soldiers in the British Army in 1812: 243,885 Number of British soldiers stationed in Canada in 1812: 6,000 Number of soldiers in the United States Army in 1812: 7,000 Approximate number...

Broken Voyage, Circuitous Voyage, "Broken" Voyage, "Circuitous" Voyage These terms were used by Britain to define a loophole within its rule of '56. If a cargo was picked up at an enemy port by a n...