maps and firearms from a little-remembered conflict that nevertheless played a critical part in American history. It's called "War of 1812: Ohio on the Front Line." John Haas and Cliff Eckle are ...

An equal thirst for territory propelled the migrants, however -- the same inexorable expansionism that set the stage for Ohio's part in the War of 1812, which started 200 years ago this month.

COLUMBUS — The War of 1812, including its famous Battle of Lake Erie, will receive new public attention as Ohio gears up for the war’s bicentennial in two years. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has ...

Following the loss of Detroit in August 1812 and the defeat at Frenchtown in January 1813, the western Ohio frontier lay open ... an American victory, but the war would soon return to Fort Meigs.

Pioneer surveyor Lucas Sullivant arrived in what is now central Ohio in 1795 ... but a few still lingered about.” During the War of 1812, Gen. William Henry Harrison used Franklinton as one ...

Fort Mackinac, Mackinac Island, Mich. The first land battle of the war took place in July 1812, when British soldiers surprised Americans on Mackinac Island; the Americans didn't even know the two ...

This year, on the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, I am reminded of what a pivotal role the new state of Ohio played in that conflict. One of the largest battles of that war, if not the ...

maps and firearms from a little-remembered conflict that nevertheless played a critical part in American history. It's called "War of 1812: Ohio on the Front Line." John Haas and Cliff Eckle are ...