This year marks the 200 th anniversary of the War of 1812, one of whose epic battles inspired the United States national anthem. Although war—which featured the U.S. invasion of Ontario and the ...

Joy Reid appeared on Don Lemon's show and claimed that Canada burned down the White House in 1814. However, the claim is false, as it was the British and not Canada who burned down the White House ...

We are now going to explain the War of 1812 to you. Why not? We didn’t think we’d find ourselves here, either. But on Wednesday, CNN reported that the 206-year-old war figured prominently in a ...

American anger at the British, the former colonial overlords who at the time ruled Canada. The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early ...