JANUARY 27TH, 1815: President Madison signs bill authorizing the President to call up 40,000 state troops. Congress, however, had earlier limited the bill by authorizing troops only to serve in their home states with the consent of the state governors.
Kind of defeats the purpose of the bill, don't you think. I wonder how the New England states voted.
He obviously didn't yet know about the Treaty of Ghent.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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