OK, news was a bit slower back in 1815. Definitely took longer to get from Europe to North America.
FEBRUARY 4TH: U.S. adopts second enemy trade law.
FEBRUARY 7TH: Skirmish of Taylor's Island, Dorchester County, Maryland.
FEBRUARY 8TH: News of the Treaty of Ghent (signed Dec. 24, 1814) arrives in North America.
FEBRUARY 11TH: British besiege Fort Bowyer, (today's Alabama), at mouth of Mobile Bay.
On the same day that the British begin their siege of Fort Bowyer, Mississippi Territory, Henry Carroll, secretary of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay, arrives in New York from Plymouth, England, with a signed copy of 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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