Even though the Treaty of Ghent had been signed in December, it had yet to be ratified in Britain of the United States. The war went on in North America.
JANUARY 1815: The British 102nd Regiment arrives in Quebec City, Lower Canada.
JANUARY 1815: Ensign Goerge Morehouse of the New Brunswich Fencibles led a detachment from Meductic and captures Houlton, District of Maine, in an effort to secure the strategically important line of communications between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Quebec, Lower Canada.
JANUARY 1, 1815: The British bombard the defenses of New Orleans.
--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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