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    1812 Journal – Then & Now

    March 17, 2013 by John Boileau
    Death of General Pike. ILLUSTRATION: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C007434 The War of 1812 lasted from the American declaration of war on Great Britain in June 1812 to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815. Each article in our Then & Now Journal...
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    1812 Journal – Then & Now

    September 1, 2012 by John Boileau
    The War of 1812 lasted from the American declaration of war on Great Britain inJune 1812 to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815. Each article in our Then & Now Journal consists of two parts. The “Then” portion describes events...
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    1812 Journal – Then & Now

    July 1, 2012 by John Boileau
    The War of 1812 lasted from the American declaration of war on Great Britain in June 1812 to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815. Each article in our Then & Now Journal consists of two parts. The “Then” portion describes events...
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    1812 Journal – Then & Now

    May 1, 2012 by John Boileau
    With this issue we begin a new series commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, which lasted from the American declaration of war on Great Britain in June 1812 to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815. Each article in our Then...
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    Slaughter On The Somme

    July 1, 2011 by John Boileau
    On July 1, 1916, a largely volunteer British army attacked a well-trained and well-entrenched German force. It was the blackest day in British military history. By its end, more casualties had been suffered than any day before or since—a shocking 30,000 in the first hour,...
  • 6 It was the longest and hardest battle ever fought at sea. During six protracted years, more humans, ships and materiel were lost than in all the naval campaigns of the previous 500 years combined. It was arguably also the most decisive campaign of the Second...
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